M2Eclipse
M2Eclipse provides tight
integration for Apache Maven into the IDE with the
following features:
- Launching Maven builds from within Eclipse
- Dependency management for Eclipse build path based on Maven's pom.xml
- Resolving Maven dependencies from the Eclipse workspace without installing to local Maven repository
- Automatic downloading of the required dependencies from the remote Maven repositories
- Wizards for creating new Maven projects, pom.xml and to enable Maven support on plain Java project
- Quick search for dependencies in Maven remote repositories
Installation
You can install the lastest M2Eclipse release (1.8.3) by using the following update site from
within Eclipse:
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases
There are also development builds available. Information on how to install those can be found here.