Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Is this the Eclipse Plugin that allows me to run maven commands from within Eclipse IDE?
  2. I already did mvn eclipse:eclipse but when I open Eclipse, my project is not there. Where is it?
  3. After running mvn eclipse:eclipse, the generated dependencies are pointing to a non-existing file. What needs to be done?
  4. Can I make the Eclipse plugin download and attach javadocs to my libraries?
Is this the Eclipse Plugin that allows me to run maven commands from within Eclipse IDE?

No. This is a maven plugin to generate Eclipse files for a maven project. This is not an Eclipse Plugin for Maven.

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I already did mvn eclipse:eclipse but when I open Eclipse, my project is not there. Where is it?

You may also need to import the project created by Maven Eclipse Plugin. More information can be found here.

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After running mvn eclipse:eclipse, the generated dependencies are pointing to a non-existing file. What needs to be done?

Before you can setup any maven project to your Eclipse IDE, you need to define first the ___location of your local repository to Eclipse. This is done by using: eclipse:add-maven-repo

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Can I make the Eclipse plugin download and attach javadocs to my libraries?

As of version 2.4, there is a new flag, downloadJavadocs that behaves exactly like downloadSources except for javadocs. See more information here: Attach Library Sources.

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