Developing with Eclipse and Maven

Chapter 1. Introduction to m2eclipse

Chapter 1. Introduction to m2eclipse

1.1. Introduction

The Eclipse IDE is the most widely used IDE for Java development today. Eclipse has a huge amount of plugins (see http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/) and an innumerable amount of organizations 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.