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Maven 2 Eclipse Plug-in |
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Plugins are great in simplifying the life of
programmers; it actually reduces the repetitive
tasks involved in the programming. In this
article our experts will show you the steps
required to download and install the Maven
Plugin with your eclipse IDE.
Why Maven with Eclipse
Eclipse is an industry leader in IDE market,
it is used very extensively in developing projects
all around the world. Similarly, Maven is a highlevel,
intelligent project management, build and
deployment tool provided by Apache’s software
foundation group. Maven deals with application
development lifecycle management.
Maven–Eclipse Integration makes the
development, testing, packaging and
deployment process easy and fast. Maven
Integration for Eclipse provides a tight
integration for Maven into the IDE and avails
the following features:
- It helps to launch Maven builds from
within Eclipse
- It avails the dependency management
for Eclipse build path based on Maven’s
pom.xml
- It resolves Maven dependencies from
the Eclipse workspace without installing
to local Maven repository
- It avails an automatic downloading of
the required dependencies from the
remote Maven repositories
- It provides wizards for creating new
Maven projects, pom.xml or to enable
Maven support on plain Java project
- It helps to search quickly for
dependencies in Maven remote
repositories
- It quickly fixes in the Java editor for
looking up required dependencies/jars
by the class or package name.
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What do you need?
1. Get the Eclipse Development Environment
In this tutorial we are using the eclipse-
SDK-3.3-win32, which can be downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
2. Get Maven-eclipse-plugin-plugin
It isavailable at
http://mevenide.codehaus.org/maveneclipse-
plugin-plugin/
Download and Install Eclipse
First download and install the eclipse plugin on
your development machine then proceed with
the installation process of the eclipse-maven
plugin.
Steps to Install the eclipse-maven
plugin
1. Open eclipse IDE and go to Help->Software
Updates-> Find and Install as shown in Figure
1 below:
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