[m2e-users] Automatic project changes resolution

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Hi all,

I'm new to m2e, so my question might sound strange. I would appreciate if you point me to some documentation in that case.

We
 have dozens of sub-projects in our 3-level pom tree and people keep 
adding and removing some of them on a bi-weekly basis. The problem is 
further complicated by a fact that not all newly added projects result 
in compile-time error when they are missing. The could end up not being 
dropped into OSGi container since people forget to import them properly 
and Eclipse for some reason doesn't know about their existence 
automatically.

Currently, people have to watch some mailing list and whenever there
 is such an event, they have to go and either manually invoke import 
wizard for the very root pom and add missing projects or manually remove
 some of the not needed ones. Moving/renaming is a combination of 
removing/adding.

That all is very error prone and we would like to automate/simplify the process somehow.

Ideally, we would like to have the following workflow:
1) sync
2) fire Eclipse
3) Some hook to trigger which would analyze developer's workspace against latest pom tree (the very root pom is fixed and known)

4) There should be some button somewhere which would be:
- green, if everything is all-right
- red, if not
Clicking
 it should automatically remove not needed projects (and update Eclipse 
internals) and add the new ones (some sort of invoking import wizard in a
 silent mode).

Is it possible with the existing functionality? Or would we have to somehow extend m2e?

Any help would be very appreciated!