Development Assistance [Maven] pom.xml errors - PLEASE HELP

Hi,

i have recently been switching from developing plugins the way i used to do it (normal java project importing external jars) but i wanted to learn how to do it in maven, so now i can't even get past creating the maven project!

i was creating my project when it came with this error

Building Workspace:

Updating Project:

the following is what my pom.xml currently has:

Code:

<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>LeePMC.github.io.git</groupId>
  <artifactId>TestPlugin</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <build>
      <plugins>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
              <configuration>
                  <source>1.7</source>
                  <target>1.7</target>
              </configuration>
          </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>
   <repositories>
       <repository>
           <id>bukkit-repo</id>
           <url>https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
       </repository>
   </repositories>
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.bukkit</groupId>
           <artifactId>bukkit</artifactId>
           <version>1.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
           <type>jar</type>
           <scope>provided</scope>
       </dependency>
   </dependencies>
</project>

and for some reason, the <plugin> is underlined in red, if you need that error please reply and i will be happy to post it, another thing i should add is that my maven project hasn't finished 'setting up' so i don't have any src/reasources with the folder/package icon or any folders like that, just:

- src/reasources
-src/main
- etc.

these are just normal folders though, they don't look like they did on buckets plugin tutorial, i have searched for answers but i have found nothing, if someone could help me that would be greatly appreciated

 

@timtower
i question your judgment in moving my thread... mostly because the 2 forums are almost identical, i just hope someone can help me instead of moving my threads around...