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.