Problem

During CI Maven builds, the following warnings are logged:

[WARNING] The POM for org.eclipse.m2e:lifecycle-mapping:jar:1.0.0 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] Failed to retrieve plugin descriptor for org.eclipse.m2e:lifecycle-mapping:1.0.0: Plugin org.eclipse.m2e:lifecycle-mapping:1.0.0 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved

Root Cause

The parent POM (pom.xml) contains Eclipse M2E lifecycle-mapping configuration that instructs Eclipse IDE to ignore certain Maven plugin executions during incremental builds:

• buildmetadata-maven-plugin:provide-buildmetadata
• project-sources-maven-plugin:archive
• jaxws-tools-maven-plugin:wsconsume

This configuration uses a virtual plugin org.eclipse.m2e:lifecycle-mapping:1.0.0 which does not exist in Maven repositories - it is only a marker for Eclipse M2E plugin.

Proposed Solution

Eclipse IDE is no longer supported for quickstarts development. The M2E lifecycle-mapping configuration can be removed entirely from the parent POM.

Affected Files

• pom.xml - remove [plugin] block for org.eclipse.m2e:lifecycle-mapping

Impact

• Removes ~70 lines of obsolete configuration
• Eliminates harmless but noisy warnings during CI builds
• No functional impact on Maven builds