Maven – The POM for maven-compiler-plugin:jar:3.8.1 is missing
Maven compiles and hits the following maven-compiler-plugin
error?
The POM for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:jar:3.8.1 is missing,
no dependency information available
pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Terminal
> mvn compile
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] --------------------< com.mkyong.core:junit5-maven >--------------------
[INFO] Building junit5-maven 1.0
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:jar:3.8.1 is missing, no dependency information available
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.227 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-10-17T17:01:45+08:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failure to
find org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:jar:3.8.1 in https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository,
resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced -> [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/PluginResolutionException
Solution
Find your Maven local repository, navigate to maven-compiler-plugin
, delete the 3.8.1
folder, so that the Maven will redownload it again. For example:
C:\Users\mkyong\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-compiler-plugin
Hi mkyong,
Thanks for the good post. i faced exception like “Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.5.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved” when maven install operation is tried. this above solution not working. Can you please help me to resolve this?