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Maven for Eclipse

By : Sanjay Shah
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Maven for Eclipse

By: Sanjay Shah

Overview of this book

<p>Starting with an exploration of the Maven architecture and its installation, you will then learn how to install m2eclipse, which provides Maven integration with Eclipse. Furthermore, the book guides you through the stages of project creation, including building, testing, and executing the projects.</p> <p>You will learn to customize your projects by demonstrating different core concepts of the Maven project structure. Nevertheless, you will also become familiar with the build lifecycles that generate the required artifacts. Moreover, it will also guide you through the process of handling multimodule projects and working with them effectively.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of m2eclipse and will be able to use it efficiently with ease.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Maven for Eclipse
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Maven console


Before we get our hands dirty with building and executing Maven projects, we need to enable the Maven console. The Maven console can be enabled with the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Window | Show View | Console. This shows the console view.

  2. Next, click on the little arrow of Open Console as shown in the following screen and click on Maven Console:

The Maven console shows all the output of the Maven build process. It shows all the details that Maven processes and is really helpful in getting to know what is happening underneath and you can also see the debug messages.