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June 14, 2010
 

Maven Eclipse Plugin and the POM packaging project

I simply hate that "mvn eclipse:eclipse" does not generate project files for Maven projects that have POM packaging. Yes I know that I can simply create a Default Eclipse project on the folder but why do I have to do this action many time when the target is to avoid to repeat task?
So I hacked into and "fixed" it. That was simple. What is not is to understand reason behind the choice and provide a better alternative. Let's dig into it
 
When it comes to multi-project maven configuration, there is always a little confusion. There has been a discussion about it on the jug Milano mailing list a few months ago and what put confusion in my opinion is that "pom" packaging type is misleading cause it is used for multi-modules project as well for POM inheritance.

So, "pom" is a bad keyword for a packaging type. First, is the name of the file itself, second isn't related in any way to the to the objective of the packaging type. We should have two different keyword, something like "multi-module" and "abstract", the second behing for pom inheritance while the first one is obvious.

Back to the maven-eclipse-plugin, I expect it to generate a default Eclipse project, not a Java Project, for those two kind of projects. And the multi-module of course should not include the childs project in its Eclipse project structure: a project with just the pom.xml in it should be more than enough.

What do you think about?

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