Apache Maven Eclipse Plugin

The Eclipse Plugin is used to generate Eclipse IDE files (.project, .classpath and the .settings folder) from a POM.

License	The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
Categories	Eclipse Development Tools IDE Maven Build Tools CLI User Interface
GroupId	com.github.marschall
ArtifactId	eclipse-maven-plugin
Last Version	2.12.0
Release Date	Jun 29, 2019
Type	maven-plugin
Description	Apache Maven Eclipse Plugin The Eclipse Plugin is used to generate Eclipse IDE files (.project, .classpath and the .settings folder) from a POM.
Project URL	http://marschall.github.io/eclipse-maven-plugin/
Source Code Management	https://github.com/marschall/eclipse-maven-plugin/

Download eclipse-maven-plugin

Filename	Size
eclipse-maven-plugin-2.12.0.pom
eclipse-maven-plugin-2.12.0.jar	128 KB
eclipse-maven-plugin-2.12.0-sources.jar	105 KB
eclipse-maven-plugin-2.12.0-javadoc.jar	657 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.marschall</groupId>
    <artifactId>eclipse-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.12.0</version>
</plugin>

Dependencies

compile (13)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven : maven-project	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven : maven-plugin-api	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven : maven-model	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven : maven-artifact-manager	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven : maven-artifact	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven : maven-core	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven : maven-settings	jar	2.2.1
org.apache.maven.wagon : wagon-provider-api	jar	2.12
org.codehaus.plexus : plexus-archiver	jar	2.11
org.codehaus.plexus : plexus-utils	jar	3.2.0
org.apache.maven : maven-archiver	jar	2.6
org.codehaus.plexus : plexus-resources	jar	1.1.0
org.eclipse.platform : org.eclipse.core.resources	jar	3.13.400

provided (1)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools : maven-plugin-annotations	jar	3.6.0

test (11)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.easymock : easymock	jar	4.0.2
commons-io : commons-io	jar	2.6
org.jdom : jdom2	jar	2.0.6
jaxen : jaxen	jar	1.2.0
org.apache.maven.plugin-testing : maven-test-tools	jar	1.3
org.apache.maven.plugin-testing : maven-plugin-testing-tools	jar	1.3
org.apache.maven.plugin-testing : maven-plugin-testing-harness	jar	1.3
org.apache.maven.shared : maven-invoker	jar	3.0.1
junit : junit	jar	4.12
org.xmlunit : xmlunit-core	jar	2.6.3
org.xmlunit : xmlunit-legacy	jar	2.6.3

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

Eclipse Maven Plugin

The Eclipse Plugin is used to generate Eclipse IDE files (.project, .classpath and the .settings folder) from a POM.

This is based on wcm-io-devops/eclipse-maven-plugin which is a fork of the original Maven Eclipse Plugin which was retired end of 2015 in favor of M2Eclipse.

For more information check out the generated plugin page .

Changes since the original Maven Eclipse Plugin 2.10

Changelog

Added

• support for test folders
• support for test dependencies, both JAR and project dependencies
• support for the --release compiler option
• ignore optional compile problems on attached source folders
• additional source folders
• JavaEE 7
• JavaEE 8
• Java 9 to 17

Removed

• all goals except eclipse and clean
• AJDT support
• MyEclipse support
• RAD support

To use this in your projects update all your POMs to use

<plugin>
  <groupId>com.github.marschall</groupId>
  <artifactId>eclipse-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.12.0</version>
</plugin>

instead of

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.10</version>
</plugin>

If you add com.github.marschall as a pluginGroup to your ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml or ${maven.home}/conf/settings.xml

<pluginGroups>
  <pluginGroup>com.github.marschall</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>

you will be able to use eclipse:eclipse as a Maven goal directly.

Versions

Version
2.12.0 Jun 29, 2019
2.11.2 Jun 27, 2019
2.11.1 Apr 9, 2019
2.11.0 Mar 31, 2019