Introduction

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