Maven Plugins for Eclipse

All,

Do you have recommendations on a good Maven2 plugin for
Eclipse?  I just
tried M2 Eclipse from Codehaus (http://m2eclipse.codeha
us.org) and it seems
a little klunky - my Eclipse projects have build errors
(they didn't prior
to the plugin, and compiling using the poms from the command
line works
fine) and trouble staying synchronized.  Are there others
you've tried and
like?  I actually prefer using External Launchers and/or the
command line,
but I'm trying to sell a Maven upgrade to co-workers who are
very reliant on
and set in their ways in Eclipse, so I need to make the
transition as
painless for them as possible.

Thanks.

Dave

We hit the same problem. maven 2 plugin uses maven 2.1 and
we prefer using
hte command line tool.
You can setup a launch configuration in eclipse which relies
on variables
$ and $ which gives the launch the
context of the
current project and maven_bin is user defined to point to
the location of
the maven executable

You can then share these launch configurations by saving
them to files. I
have attached a few that we use. You can add them to any
project to your
workspace and they should be available for all from the
external tools
runner. http://www.nabble.com/file/p12432410/maven%2B
eclipse-eclipse.launch
maven+eclipse-eclipse.launch 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p124324
10/maven%2Bpurge%2Blocal%2Brepository.launch
maven+purge+local+repository.launch 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p12432410/maven%2Bsite.launch
 maven+site.launch 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p12432410/maven%2Bdeploy.la
unch
maven+deploy.launch 

Dave Feltenberger wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Do you have recommendations on a good Maven2 plugin for
Eclipse?  I just
> tried M2 Eclipse from Codehaus (http://m2eclipse.codeha
us.org) and it
> seems
> a little klunky - my Eclipse projects have build errors
(they didn't prior
> to the plugin, and compiling using the poms from the
command line works
> fine) and trouble staying synchronized.  Are there
others you've tried and
> like?  I actually prefer using External Launchers
and/or the command line,
> but I'm trying to sell a Maven upgrade to co-workers
who are very reliant
> on
> and set in their ways in Eclipse, so I need to make the
transition as
> painless for them as possible.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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Dave,

What I do for some large projects is use the Codehaus plugin
to resolve
dependencies which it does alright (it has its bugs no doubt
but I find it
usable) and actually use the Ant view to execute Maven. 
This allows me to
essentially do similar things as an External Launch
configuration and use
Ant in some places where Maven may not be the right fit.  I
can do command
line builds as well as Eclipse builds and they BOTH execute
using the same
build tools.  I also can configure profiles within Maven by
referencing them
from my Ant build targets.

Anyway its just a thought,

-aps

PS My biggest complaint with Maven/IDE integration is how to
handle
dependencies within a project.  The Codehaus pluging I THINK
has the right
approach in that it needs to read the project's pom file,
parse it
correctly, and update the classpath container variable
before doing any
automatic builds.  Btw, startup with the Codehaus plugin is
quite annoying.

On 8/31/07, Nicky Sandhu <karajdaargmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> We hit the same problem. maven 2 plugin uses maven 2.1
and we prefer using
> hte command line tool.
> You can setup a launch configuration in eclipse which
relies on variables
> $ and $ which gives the launch
the context of the
> current project and maven_bin is user defined to point
to the location of
> the maven executable
>
> You can then share these launch configurations by
saving them to files. I
> have attached a few that we use. You can add them to
any project to your
> workspace and they should be available for all from the
external tools
> runner.
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12432410/maven%2B
eclipse-eclipse.launch
> maven+eclipse-eclipse.launch
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p124324
10/maven%2Bpurge%2Blocal%2Brepository.launch
> maven+purge+local+repository.launch
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12432410/maven%2Bsite.launch
 maven+site.launch
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12432410/maven%2Bdeploy.la
unch
> maven+deploy.launch
>
> Dave Feltenberger wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Do you have recommendations on a good Maven2
plugin for Eclipse?  I just
> > tried M2 Eclipse from Codehaus (http://m2eclipse.codeha
us.org) and it
> > seems
> > a little klunky - my Eclipse projects have build
errors (they didn't
> prior
> > to the plugin, and compiling using the poms from
the command line works
> > fine) and trouble staying synchronized.  Are there
others you've tried
> and
> > like?  I actually prefer using External Launchers
and/or the command
> line,
> > but I'm trying to sell a Maven upgrade to
co-workers who are very
> reliant
> > on
> > and set in their ways in Eclipse, so I need to
make the transition as
> > painless for them as possible.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
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