Maven - Maven with Eclipse IDE - maven tutorial

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How to use Maven With Eclipse IDE ?

• Maven also provides an excellent plugin which helps to integrate both eclipse and maven together.
• M2eclipse is the plugin used to integrate maven and eclipse.
• Some of the key benefits of this plugin:
• Run Maven goals from Eclipse.
• View the output of Maven commands inside the Eclipse using its own console.
• Update maven dependencies with IDE.
• Launch Maven builds from within Eclipse.
• It does 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 (requires dependency project be in same workspace).
• Automatic downloads required dependencies and sources from the remote Maven repositories.
• It provides wizards for creating new Maven projects, pom.xml and to enable Maven support on existing projects
• It provides quick search for dependencies in remote Maven repositories

Install m2eclipse Plugin

• Follow the below link to easily install the m2eclipse plugin in your eclipse IDE.
• http://books.sonatype.com/m2eclipse-book/reference/ch02s03.html

Creating a maven project in eclipse

• Below is the step by step explanation on creating a maven project in eclipse.
• Step 1: Open the eclipse. Go to File -> New -> Project and search by the keyword maven and select Maven Project

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• Step 2: Select the checkbox saying, Create a simple project and click on Next.

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• Step 3: Provide the details for groupId, artifactId, version and packaging as shown below and click on Finish.

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• Step 4: A new project name SampleMavenProject will be created as shown below:

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