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Blessed Geek
Blessed Geek

Reputation: 21664

Which M2Eclipse

I had not faced such a problem before because I have been using Spring Tool Suite, which reduces my stress by straightening out my eclipse life-style and conflicts.

However for some reason, I am now attempting to setup Juno without the convenience of Spring. I am now attempting to install m2eclipse from market place. Bizarrely, there are two listings for m2eclipse in market place. Which one is the true one?

  1. Maven Integration for Eclipse WTP (from github) by Redhat.
    The m2eclipse-wtp project has moved to the Eclipse Foundation. The m2eclipse-wtp plugin is now deprecated in favor of the newer m2e-wtp

    Automatic installation from the marketplace has been suspended. m2eclipse-wtp 0.15.3 can be manually installed from http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/m2eclipse-wtp/

  2. Maven Integration for Eclipse WTP(Juno) by Eclipse.org

Questions:

  1. Are they the same build and distribution but hosted by different organisations? Otherwise, as I asked above, which is the true one?

  2. Are they forks and therefore might behave differently? If so, which variance should I subscribe to?

  3. "m2eclipse" vs "m2eclipse for wtp" : they are the same thing aren't they? I mean there isn't one generic m2eclipse and another m2eclipse specifically for wtp, right? Is it that "m2eclipse for wtp" is simply a more compulsive way of saying "m2eclipse" and no more should be implied from that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 313

Answers (1)

Thorn G
Thorn G

Reputation: 12776

"m2eclipse for WTP" is not the regular m2eclipse; it's a set of extensions that better integrate Maven with the Eclipse Web Tools Project. If you are using a recent build of Juno (why not Kepler?) then m2eclipse, which is now just named "m2e" should already be installed. If you managed to grab a build of Juno without it preloaded, you can use this update site.

Upvotes: 1

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