From 7f4dc2f9c07df3c0740d87cd6f10902a2d21046b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Leslie Porter <brett@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:03:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] error handling

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk@163437 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../java/org/apache/maven/plugin/DefaultPluginManager.java    | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/DefaultPluginManager.java b/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/DefaultPluginManager.java
index 1a39c15939..c572e764a0 100644
--- a/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/DefaultPluginManager.java
+++ b/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/DefaultPluginManager.java
@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ public class DefaultPluginManager
         PluginExecutionResponse response;
 
         MojoDescriptor mojoDescriptor = getMojoDescriptor( goalName );
+        if ( mojoDescriptor == null )
+        {
+            throw new GoalExecutionException( "Unable to find goal: " + goalName );            
+        }
 
         if ( mojoDescriptor.requiresDependencyResolution() )
         {