Importing Maven Projects
m2eclipse provides three options for importing a Maven project into Eclipse, including:
Import an existing Maven project
Check out a Maven project from SCM
Materialize a Maven project
Figure 14-10 shows the wizard for importing projects with the options for Maven provided by m2eclipse.
Figure 14-10. Importing a Maven project
The dialog in Figure 14-10 is displayed when you use the File â command in Eclipse and then filter the options by entering the word âmavenâ in the filter field. As noted earlier, three options are available for importing a Maven project into Eclipse, including: Maven Projects, Check out Maven Project from Subversion, and Materialize Maven Projects.
Importing a Maven project from Subversion is identical to creating a Maven project from Subversion, as discussed in the previous section, so discussion of it here would be redundant. Letâs move on now to review the other two options for importing a Maven project into Eclipse.
Importing a Maven Project
m2eclipse can import a Maven project with an existing pom.xml. By pointing at the directory where a Maven project is located, m2eclipse detects all the Maven POMs in the project and provides a hierarchical list of them as shown in Figure 14-11.
Figure 14-11. Importing a multimodule Maven ...
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