How to solve “Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration” for Spring Data Maven Builds

In my case of a similar problem, instead of using Andrew’s suggestion for the fix, it worked simply after I introduced tag to the pom.xml in question. Looks like that error is due to a missing tag. So, in order to avoid the exceptions in Eclipse, one needs to simply enclose all the plugin tags inside a tag, like so:
… … ….

Once this structure is in place, the error goes away.

What a mess. I don’t remember where I found this but I had to add the following to get M2Eclipse to be happy. Even more sad is that it isn’t exactly easy to understand why this tag is needed.

… various plugins …

There were a number of other issues with the M2Eclipse plug-in that simply didn’t work with Spring Data. In the end I disabled M2Eclipse in favor of the Apache Eclipse plug-in.