maven - "Plugin not found for prefix" error in Eclipse

Question

In Eclipse I imported a maven-based project which uses maven jetty plugin. If I run mvn jetty:run from command line, everything works fine. If I add a run configuration in Eclipse and try to run it, I get the error message:

[ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'jetty' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repositories [local (/home/eugene/.m2/repository), central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1]

In the Eclipe run configuration, I use:

• Base directory: ${project_loc}
• Goal: jetty:run
• Maven Runtime: External

I read the [Help1] page. I don't have pluginGroup settings in maven configuration files, but I have the jetty plugin mentioned in pom.xml, so I guess everything should be fine (especially because everything works in command-line). I tried to "Run as > Maven clean" in Eclipse before executing the jetty run configuration, but it didn't help. Project compiles and passes all tests, only jetty:run does not work in Eclipse.

Please help, I'm an Eclipse & Maven newbie. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It does not work for me from command-line either.

Can you check if it works after adding the following in settings.xml as documented?

<pluginGroups>
    <pluginGroup>org.mortbay.jetty</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>

Also note that there are two different versions of the plugin - the older maven jetty plugin and the newer jetty maven plugin.