Chapter 14. Maven and Eclipse: m2eclipse

Introduction

The Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the most widely used IDE for Java development today. Eclipse has a huge number of plugins (see http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/), and innumerable organizations are developing their own software on top of it. Quite simply, Eclipse is ubiquitous. The m2Eclipse project provides support for Maven within the Eclipse IDE, and in this chapter, we will explore the features it provides to help you use Maven with Eclipse.

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