June 2005
Beginner
224 pages
5h 40m
English
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Using the Eclipse Maven Plug-in
Yes, there is a quality Maven plug-in you can use in Eclipse. It supports a number of interesting features, such as the ability to edit project.xml files, support for Maven customization, and a Maven repository browser, among other features.
How do I do that?
Mevenide (http://mevenide.codehaus.org/mevenide-ui-eclipse/update/index.html) is an Eclipse plug-in which allows you to use Maven from within Eclipse. You can download it from an Eclipse Update site by following these directions:
Start Eclipse.
Select Help → Software Updates → Find and Install from the menu.
In the Install/Update dialog, select "Search for new feature to install," and click Next.
In the Install dialog, click New Remote Site.
In the New Update Site dialog, type
Mevenideinto the Name field, and the location of the Eclipse Update site into the URL field. The Eclipse Update site for Mevenide is http://mevenide.codehaus.org/release/eclipse/update/site.xml.When the word Mevenide appears in the Install dialog, select both of the children, Maven and Mevenide, and click Next.
Once Maven and Mevenide are downloaded and installed, restart Eclipse.
The first thing you'll notice is that Mevenide has marked every project.xml file with a green icon. To open project.xml in the Project Object Model Editor, right-click any project.xml file and select Open With... → Project Object Model Editor. This editor will display the panel shown in Figure 1-3.
Figure 1-3. Overview panel of Mevenide's Project Object ...
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