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Random42
Random42

Reputation: 9159

Maven IDEA plugin (or eclipse plugin)

From what I have understood, it is not the best way to open a project built with Maven in Intellij by using the idea plug-in, that is by calling:

mvn idea:idea

but by open directly the pom file (Intellij has default plug-in for Maven); the same thing, for eclipse.

Could you provide some arguments on why this is a better approach?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1435

Answers (2)

joel1di1
joel1di1

Reputation: 773

For eclipse, the maven-eclipse plugin is not really maintained

Upvotes: 0

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Reputation: 340733

This applies equally to IntelliJ and Maven:

  • changing pom.xml file is not reflected in your IDE, you must rebuild the project (possibly losing some configuration (?)) every time. Moreover, if any team member modifies pom.xml, you have to remember about rebulding your project (which will require closing and reopening it).

  • additional step is required when opening new project

  • IDEs have some other Maven features, e.g. both of aforementioned environemnts can show dependency graphs

Use mvn plugin as a last resort only when your IDE goes crazy and cannot figure out maven configuration correctly.

Upvotes: 6

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