INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:xfire-maven-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can anybody please help me solve above

I am having exactly the same problem.

Interestingly, the site

http://mojo.codehaus.org/xfire-maven-plugin/

exists. Not sure why the needed downloads are missing. maybe we need to send a help request to codehaus?

here is some useful info from:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_....nabble.com%3E

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Good day, Rod,

Sorry about that... I have just taken a look at the repository itself and
its seems that the jar of xfire-maven-plugin is not there. Then I guess the
only thing left to do is to checkout the source, and build it yourself.

Cheers,
Franz


Rod Mclaughlin-2 wrote:
>
> *I put this both in <repositories> and <pluginRepositories> and it makes
> no difference*
> <id>Codehaus Snapshots</id>
> <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/</url>
> <snapshots>
> <enabled>true</enabled>
> </snapshots>
> <releases>
> <enabled>false</enabled>
> </releases>
> it still says
> *The plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:xfire-maven-plugin' does not exist or no
> valid version could be found*
>
>
>
>
> franz see wrote:
>> Good day to you, Rod,
>>
>> The xfire-maven-plugin is in codehaus mojo-sandbox. So you either
>> checkout
>> the source and build it, or use the snapshot version deployed
>>
>> <pluginRepository>
>> <id>Codehaus Snapshots</id>
>> <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/</url>
>> <snapshots>
>> <enabled>true</enabled>
>> </snapshots>
>> <releases>
>> <enabled>false</enabled>
>> </releases>
>> </pluginRepository>
>>
>> See [1].
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Franz
>>
>> [1] http://mojo.codehaus.org/using-sandbox-plugins.html
>>
>>
>> Rod Mclaughlin-2 wrote:
>>
>>> Wayne Fay wrote:
>>>
>>>> *Without knowing anything more about your project or seeing your
>>>> pom.xml files, I assume you've declared <repositories> but not
>>>> <pluginRepositories> to match. *
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>> Thanks. Even if I do
>>> <pluginRepositories>
>>> <pluginRepository>
>>> <id>central</id>
>>> <name>Maven Plugin Repository</name>
>>> <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
>>> <layout>default</layout>
>>> <snapshots>
>>> <enabled>false</enabled>
>>> </snapshots>
>>> </pluginRepository>
>>> </pluginRepositories>
>>> it still says *The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-xfire-plugin'
>>> does not exist or no valid version could be found*
>>>
>>> *Craig S. Cottingham: Here it says it's looking for maven-xfire-plugin,
>>> but...
>>> ...here you declare xfire-maven-plugin. Was that a typo (transcribe-o?),
>>> or could this be part of the problem you're seeing? *
>>> It makes no difference whether it says
>>> <artifactId>PLUGINNAME-maven-plugin or maven-PLUGINNAME-plugin in the
>>> plugin section of the POM, it always says
>>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-PLUGINNAME-plugin not found for any
>>> plugin.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Rod McLaughlin
> Omnimedix Institute
> Rod.McLaughlin@omnimedix.org
>
>
>

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Hey

My slightly modified version of the pom.xml file seems to work.

I added a version no to the plugin:
 <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <version>1.0-20061017.160413-3</version>
        <artifactId>xfire-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <executions>
           <execution>
              <goals>
                 <goal>wsgen</goal>
              </goals>
           </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <package>com.wrox.webservice.emailvalidation.clien t</package>
          <overwrtite>true</overwrtite>
          <generateServerStubs>false</generateServerStubs>
          <forceBare>false</forceBare>
          <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</outputDirectory>
          <wsdls>
            <wsdl>http://ws.xwebservices.com/XWebEmailValidation/V2/XWebEmailValidation.wsdl</wsdl>
          </wsdls>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

and an alternate plugin repository (placed below the </build> tag): <pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
     <id>Codehaus Snapshots</id>
     <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/</url>
     <snapshots>
       <enabled>true</enabled>
     </snapshots>
     <releases>
       <enabled>false</enabled>
     </releases>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

I can upload the complete file somewhere if requested.

Thanks

Aneesha

just for the record, the above patch to the POM file worked for me as well. thank you aneesha!

I followed your suggestions below and was able to run mvn package successfully. Thanks for your help.

Jim

Thanks all, for the info on modifying pom.xml. I am a newbie with Spring and Maven, so this helped a great deal.

After trying to rebuild, I was getting the
"Tests in error: testRotateImage" that is described in Appendix C. I tried "-dmaven.test.skip=true", but found that -d was not recognized. After looking at mvn's help, on a hunch, I tried "-D", and then the build ran to completion, finally building the target .war.

-Greg

If you look into the Test class it indicates that it is looking for a file footbal.jpg. This file is missing from the code download.

When you add a JPEG image with this name at this place wrox-pix-web\src\test\resources\football.jpg your tests will also run successfully.

Tks a lot aneesha, your help was great!..

and also, tks kvandeweyer for your post.

Greetings from Aguascalientes, Mex.