Any input on how to get Maven war-app fully setup in Eclipse as "Dynamic Web Project"?
We have a webproject setup and working in Maven3.
Using Eclipse-Indigo, latest version, and running
mvn eclipse:eclipse
to import it into Eclipse.
This works fine for the Java-files compilation, but cannot build a war-file and deploy to an appserver defined in Eclipse. Would be nice to get that working, too.
(I read that you can use m2eclipse for this, but I sincerely hate it, because (at least some months ago when I last tried it) it's still ridiculously slow to build a reasonably large/complex application -- like it said "Build Project and go have a coffee" in the menu).
I now saw, however, that you can also do
mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=[version]
Problem, according to documentation
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/eclipse-mojo.html
is that [version] can only be "R7", "1.0", or "1.5". That seems like awfully old versions...
According to WTP documentation
http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_FAQ#What_version_of_Eclipse_does_WTP_work_with.3F
that would require you to downgrade to Eclipse-3.2 from way-back-when...
So anybody has a reasonable solution to this?
Can it also somehow work with recent versions of Eclipse and WTP?
Do not use
maven-eclipse-plugin.Instead use Eclipse's own m2e plugin.
If you follow the link, there is a video that will help you get started.
m2e is officially integrated with WTP and, from my experience, works very well.