Is maven-eclipse-plugin no longer needed with the new M2Eclipse in Indigo?

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HDave picture HDave · Dec 6, 2011 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Historically, its been a major hassle for our team to import our multi-module Maven project into Eclipse given all the Flex, WTP, and GWT stuff in there. We were recently thinking that the maven-eclipse-plugin could help us by generating the appropriate Eclipse project files.

However, it seems now that the M2Eclipse plugin has been swallowed up by Eclipse and importing Maven projects now seems to read the pom and try to do the Right Thing.

Does this mean the maven-eclipse-plugin is essentially obsolete? What can we do to help our projects import into Eclipse in the best possible way?

Answer

Raghuram picture Raghuram · Dec 6, 2011

maven eclipse plugin and m2eclipse (now m2e) are independent projects. They stopped working together from 2.7 release of maven eclipse plugin (when maven eclipse plugin dropped eclipse:m2eclipse goal).

I believe you can use maven eclipse plugin with Eclipse if you do not have m2e plugin, but the support, especially for wtp is limited, if not non-existent.

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