Steps to enable the Maven integration with eclipse

Question

I have installed maven and eclipse juno, on CentOS. Can anyone guide me how to integrate Eclipse with maven. I am going to use this configuration for Mahout.

Answer 1

You can download maven from from eclipse market place
Simply go to help -> eclipse market place, then search maven.
(Though i have always got it already integrated in eclipse).

After you can make various customizations to suite your needs by selecting, window -> preferences, then type in maven in the search bar ontop, you can configure the location of your settings.xml file, maven installation to use and other things you may want.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You need to install a plugin for eclipse so that it knows what to do about maven projects (such as m2eclipse).

Once you have that installed, you can configure it (Windows -> Preferences -> Maven) to point to your existing maven installation, and can then create maven projects via the New -> Maven Project wizard.

You can also convert existing project to maven projects via a right click -> Configure -> Convert to Maven Project.