Creating Eclipse plugins with Maven

[Jochen Hebbrecht <jo...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to build an Eclipse plugin using Maven. So I
want to have a pom.xml for the Eclipse plugin, which gives me the
possibility to generate a .project file.

When I use the M2Eclipse plugin in Eclipse, I'm able to select
"packaging = eclipse-plugin".

But when I run: $ mvn eclipse:eclipse (I want a .project file), I'm
getting this error:

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Cannot find lifecycle mapping for packaging: 'eclipse-plugin'.
Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository: org.apache.mav
en.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMappingeclipse-plugin.

Is it possible to create Eclipse Plugin Projects with Maven? Or is the
only way using http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Building+tycho?

Regards,
Jochen

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