Maven: Invalid content was found starting with element 'plugin' - maven

Question

I have updated my pom.xml with plagins and got error:
cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'plugin'. One of '{"http://maven.apache.org/POM/
4.0.0":parent, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":description, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":prerequisites,
"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":issueManagement, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":ciManagement, "http://
maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":inceptionYear, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":mailingLists, "http://
maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":developers, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":contributors, "http://maven.apache.org/
POM/4.0.0":licenses, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":scm, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":organization,
"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":build, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":profiles, "http://maven.apache.org/
POM/4.0.0":modules, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":repositories, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/
4.0.0":pluginRepositories, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":reports, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":reporting,
"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0":dependencyManagement, "http://maven.apache.org/POM/
4.0.0":distributionManagement}' is expected.
This is pom.xml file:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>test</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.8.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc16</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.1.0</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-java2ws-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company.app</groupId>
<artifactId>services</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-sources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<className>com.company.app.services.WebServiceBean</className>
<genWsdl>true</genWsdl>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>java2ws</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process-sources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<wsdlOptions>
<wsdlOption>
<wsdl>${project.build.directory}/generated/wsdl/WebServiceBean.wsdl</wsdl>
<extraargs>
<extraarg>-p</extraarg>
<extraarg>com.company.app.services.client.model</extraarg>
</extraargs>
</wsdlOption>
</wsdlOptions>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</project>
How to solve this?

Answer 1

You have to add the following part in your pom file:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
...
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Answer 2

You need to add your code between <plugins> </plugins>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- Add here -->
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
In case you have multiple plugins, you will add another <plugin> tag under <plugins>.