diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
index 65b2be8..f3997e8 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -363,5 +363,34 @@
         </dependency>
       </dependencies>
     </profile>
+    <profile>
+      <id>maven-2</id>
+      <activation>
+        <file>
+          <!--  This employs that the basedir expression is only recognized by Maven 3.x (see MNG-2363) -->
+          <missing>${basedir}</missing>
+        </file>
+      </activation>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
+            <configuration>
+              <!-- see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5346 -->
+              <skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>true</skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>
+            </configuration>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>mojo-descriptor</id>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>descriptor</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>    
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm
index 64656a0..c45fd06 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm
@@ -122,3 +122,28 @@ Using Plugin Tools Java5 Annotations
   ...
 </project>
 +-----+
+
+ <Notice>: this configuration will not work with Maven 2, which does not support execution phase overriding.
+ If you absolutely need to build with Maven 2, you should use <<<skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>>> parameter
+ to avoid failure on default execution phase and add another execution:
+ 
++-----+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${project.version}</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <!-- see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5346 -->
+          <skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>true</skipErrorNoDescriptorsFound>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>mojo-descriptor</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>descriptor</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+   ...
++-----+