[m2] Eclipse plugin with POM-type projects

[Chris Tucker <ch...@linspireinc.com>]

Hi,

I've been using m2 and maven-eclipse-plugin for some time for developing 
EJB3 apps.  I've found it useful to have POM type projects responsible 
for managing my ear build, in a structure something like:

mymodule
  +- mymodule-build-config (type: POM)
  +- mymodule-ear          (type: ear)
  +- mymodule-domain       (type: jar)
  +- mymodule-war          (type: war)

The "build-config" module is responsible for linking into my POM 
hierarchy (I have a team-build-config, department-build-config, etc. to 
specify more general properties), and building the domain, war, and ear. 
  There is no pom.xml in the top level mymodule directory, as would be 
suggested by a hierarchical layout: effectively, I just move that pom 
into the  build-config dir to make working with Eclipse a little easier. 
  This layout ends up being a hybrid of the hierarchical and flat 
project layouts that I've seen suggested elsewhere.

The problem I have is that the maven-eclipse-plugin will not generate a 
project for Eclipse out of a POM-type module.  I've taken to hacking the 
plugin to do this, but would much rather make it an option on the 
upstream release (e.g. -DprojectForPom=true or some such).  Am I missing 
something that makes this unnecessary, or would this be a useful patch 
for others?  If so, I'd be happy to submit one to JIRA.

Cheers,
Chris

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