Which is the best Maven Eclipse plugin?

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Michel picture Michel · Nov 20, 2008 · Viewed 58.4k times · Source

There is two available Eclipse plugins for Maven :

m2eclipse seems to be the oldest but the more robust. Is there any key differences between the two ?

Which one should be chosen for a project starting today and why ?

UPDATE: m2eclipse is moving to eclipse.org and will be included in the Indigo release train (Eclipse 3.7). See m2e at Eclipse: What will this mean for you? and m2eclipse is moving to eclipse.org!. The accepted answer is thus even more correct.

Answer

Marko picture Marko · Nov 20, 2008

I choose m2eclipse since it is stable and have all that I need. Especially ability to resolve dependencies inside workspace.

I tried the other one some time ago and didn't like it. It was to buggy so I gave up quickly.

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