Warning the Requested Profile "Pom.Xml" Could Not Be Activated Because It Does Not Exist

Spring Maven clean error - The requested profile "pom.xml" could not be activated because it does not exist

The warning message

[WARNING] The requested profile "pom.xml" could not be activated because it does not exist.

means that you somehow passed -P pom.xml to Maven which means "there is a profile called pom.xml; find it and activate it". Check your environment and your settings.xml for this flag and also look at all <profile> elements inside the various XML files.

Usually, mvn help:effective-pom is also useful to see what the real POM would look like.

Now the error means that you tried to configure Maven to build Java 8 code but you're not using a Java 8 runtime. Solutions:

1. Install Java 8
2. Make sure Maven uses Java 8 if you have it installed. JAVA_HOME is your friend
3. Configure the Java compiler in your pom.xml to a Java version which you actually have.

Related:

• Introduction to Build Profiles

WARNING The requested profile "projectname" could not be activated because it does not exist

This happens when you have the following in your settings.xml (in your .m2 directory), and no profile with the id projectname.

<activeProfiles>
  <activeProfile>projectname</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>

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