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balteo
balteo

Reputation: 24679

Maven project and Eclipse workspace

I have been working with Netbeans quite a while and I am now moving to Eclipse.

Basically I have a Maven project that I would like to work on using Eclipse.

What I am not sure about is whether I need to point my Eclipse workspace to the directory where my project super pom is located or whether the Eclipse workspace needs to point to a clean/empty directory.

My question is basically:

Can anyone please advise?

Regards,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4090

Answers (3)

Giorgos Dimtsas
Giorgos Dimtsas

Reputation: 12609

It's a matter of personal preference whether you have the source files in the workspace folder or not. Eclipse can import your project from any folder. Personnaly, I keep my projects folder separated from the workspace folder.

Upvotes: 1

artbristol
artbristol

Reputation: 32407

If you have the m2e or m2eclipse plugin installed, you can just do "Import..." then "Existing Maven Projects" and point it at the super-pom. It'll import all the modules it finds, as separate projects.

Upvotes: 1

MaxS
MaxS

Reputation: 47

you can use the maven eclipse target to generate project files so you can move them directly in the eclipse workspace:

mvn eclipse:eclipse

info on the plugin

Upvotes: 1

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