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usefullness of the maven-eclipse-plugin
Hi,
I was wondering what the use is of the eclipse plugin and mostly when it is usefull. I know it generates files for Eclipse but why /when would you use it? Most projects in our organization work with tools such as RSA or Eclipse with several project wizards. When they start developing they will use the IDE to setup a project, especially with RSA that provides specific wizards which generate all needed configuration.
I'm not saying the plugin is useless, on the contrary, when you start with archetypes to create the application it's very usefull. But i've seen a project that did not check in the .project and .classpath because they wanted all developers to create the eclipse files using the eclipse plugin. The .classpath i can understand since is uses the location of the Maven repo which is userspecific, but why the .project? Are there cases where this plugin is only partially usefull and if so, should the plugin be able to just generate a .project file?
Any idea, suggestions.
Thanks,
Maarten
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Re: usefullness of the maven-eclipse-plugin
Posted by Michael McCallum <gh...@apache.org>.
http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org
This is the right way to do it... it builds a classpath container from the
dependencies in the pom, it resolves sources and javadocs for you.
It means you can check in the .project and .classpath files and it "just
works" for everyone.
It works best with webdav and http repositories. Because the embedder version
used is old it does not resolve usernames and passwords in the settings.xml,
this results in odd hangs when resolving artifacts. This is bad with
sftp/ssh/scp and worse with windows unless you set up some magic batch
scripts to figure out what the plugin intends.
On Monday 20 August 2007 18:58, maarten roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what the use is of the eclipse plugin and mostly when it is
> usefull. I know it generates files for Eclipse but why /when would you use
> it? Most projects in our organization work with tools such as RSA or
> Eclipse with several project wizards. When they start developing they will
> use the IDE to setup a project, especially with RSA that provides specific
> wizards which generate all needed configuration.
>
> I'm not saying the plugin is useless, on the contrary, when you start with
> archetypes to create the application it's very usefull. But i've seen a
> project that did not check in the .project and .classpath because they
> wanted all developers to create the eclipse files using the eclipse plugin.
> The .classpath i can understand since is uses the location of the Maven
> repo which is userspecific, but why the .project? Are there cases where
> this plugin is only partially usefull and if so, should the plugin be able
> to just generate a .project file?
>
> Any idea, suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Maarten
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: usefullness of the maven-eclipse-plugin
Posted by Arnaud HERITIER <ah...@gmail.com>.
m2eclipse, AFAIK, doesn't support WTP and it's very annoying if your
are developing JEE applications. maven-eclipse-plugin does.
Arnaud
On 20/08/07, Jan Torben Heuer <jt...@mail2003.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> maarten roosendaal wrote:
>
> > I was wondering what the use is of the eclipse plugin and mostly when it
> > is usefull. I know it generates files for Eclipse but why /when would you
>
> it detects if modules are available as eclipse project and sets references
> instead of dependencies.
>
> WTP detection is quite useful.
>
> Can m2eclipse handle that, too?
>
> Jan
>
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Re: usefullness of the maven-eclipse-plugin
Posted by Jan Torben Heuer <jt...@mail2003.dnsalias.org>.
maarten roosendaal wrote:
> I was wondering what the use is of the eclipse plugin and mostly when it
> is usefull. I know it generates files for Eclipse but why /when would you
it detects if modules are available as eclipse project and sets references
instead of dependencies.
WTP detection is quite useful.
Can m2eclipse handle that, too?
Jan
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