maven-surefire-plugin missing in eclipse

eclipse, jakarta-ee, java, maven

Solution

Add `Maven Surefire Plugin` in `pom.xml`. Refer sample `pom.xml` here:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.17</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.17</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

Problem

when I'm building a maven project I got this error ..... ``` [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2.790s [INFO] Finished at: Sun May 11 09:36:22 IST 2014 [INFO] Final Memory: 6M/111M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) on project javaeeapp: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test failed: Unable to load the mojo 'test' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10'. A required class is missing: org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/SurefireReportParameters [ERROR] ----------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] realm = plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10 [ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy [ERROR] urls[0] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/2.10/maven-surefire-plugin-2.10.jar [ERROR] urls[1] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/surefire/surefire-booter/2.10/surefire-booter-2.10.jar [ERROR] urls[2] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/surefire/maven-surefire-common/2.10/maven-surefire-common-2.10.jar [ERROR] urls[3] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/2.1/plexus-utils-2.1.jar [ERROR] Number of foreign imports: 1 [ERROR] import: Entry[import from realm ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]] [ERROR] [ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------: org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefireReportParameters [ERROR] -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginContainerException ``` how I add maven surefire plugin to eclipse??

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