Installing maven and maven plugins

Question

I have downloaded Apache Maven 3.1.1 on windows xp and the installation works.However,i want to start jetty but i am thinking there is a way i have to tell maven where to find jetty first but i went ahead anyway and i got this

C:\maven>mvn jetty:run
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-
metadata.xml
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadat
a.xml
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata
.xml (22 KB at 3.2 KB/sec)
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-m
etadata.xml (13 KB at 1.8 KB/sec)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 20.339s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jan 23 10:17:40 EAT 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 5M/13M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'jetty' in the current project and in the plu
gin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repo
sitories [local (C:\Documents and Settings\Karl Meiwes\.m2\repository), central
(http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
ch.
[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 rea
d the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoPluginFoundF
orPrefixException
C:\maven>

Will i have to tell maven where to find jetty and how do i install the jetty plugin?.In this version of maven,i find the plugins directory.Should there be one?.

Answer 1

You'll need to add the plug-in to your pom.xml . Here 's the documentation.

Answer 2

Try adding the plugin in pom.xml

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>9.0.5.v20130815</version>
</plugin>