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Cannot install AJDT tools

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An AspectJ project shows this error:

Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.codehaus.mojo:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.10:compile (execution: default, phase: compile)

Try to follow the quick fix to install it and got:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: Maven Integration for AJDT (Optional) 0.14.0.201506231302 (org.maven.ide.eclipse.ajdt.feature.feature.group 0.14.0.201506231302)
  Missing requirement: Maven Integration for AJDT (Optional) 0.14.0.201506231302 (org.maven.ide.eclipse.ajdt.feature.feature.group 0.14.0.201506231302) requires 'org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; org.eclipse.ajdt.core 1.5.0' but it could not be found

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (7 by maintainers)

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martinlippertcommented, Dec 27, 2018

OK, the problem is not the AJDT m2e connector being outdated or the wrong one, but that it cannot be installed because there is no p2 repository configured from where it can get AJDT itself from (since that is NOT pre-installed in the STS4 distribution).

You can fix that quickly by adding this p2 repository to the Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Update Sites:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/48/dev/update

If you hit the quick fix afterwards, it will install the AJDT tooling as well as the m2e connector for it.

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kriegaexcommented, Jan 28, 2022

Just in case someone digs this one out and is wondering where to find update sites for AJDT and corresponding M2E connector which also work in more recent Eclipse versions - e.g. the current release 2021-12 (4.22) as of writing this - please check this document from the AspectJ documentation:

https://github.com/eclipse/org.aspectj/blob/master/docs/developer/IDE.md#eclipse

AJDT has not been properly maintained for many years, but being kept alive and still does a decent job for most cases minus some glitches, e.g. when using Java modules (JMS, think module-info.java).