How to fix the SoapUI error "com.eviware.soapui.plugins ..."?

You are getting the following SoapUI error, because some SoapUI plugins are not fully installed:

C:\fyicenter>\fyicenter\SoapUI\bin\soapui.bat
...
21:26:01,995 ERROR [SoapUI] An error occurred [com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto
   .factories.AutoImportMethodFactory], see error log for details
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.eviware.soapui.plugins.auto.factories
   .AutoImportMethodFactory
   at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
...

You can remove those plugins for now, and install them properly later when you need them.

1. Go to your personal SoapUI configuration folder. You see 5 plugins JAR files:

 Directory of C:\users\fyicenter\.soapuios\plugins\
           397,191 ready-mqtt-plugin-dist.jar
         2,370,063 ready-uxm-plugin-1.0.1-dist.jar
            46,086 readyapi-postman-1.0.1.jar
            30,090 readyapi-swaggerhub-plugin-1.0.jar
         2,491,440 soapui-swagger-plugin-2.2-dist.jar

2. Move them to a backup folder:

c:\>mkdir C:\users\fyicenter\.soapuios\backup
c:\>copy C:\users\fyicenter\.soapuios\plugins\*.* C:\users\fyicenter\.soapuios\backup
c:\>del C:\users\fyicenter\.soapuios\*.*

This will resolve the "com.eviware.soapui.plugins ..." error.

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