Activate Checkstyle on Eclipse projects immediately after import - eclipse

Question

When using a newly imported Maven project in Eclipse (Oxygen 4.7.1a), I have to manually Activate Checkstyle on the project in order for Checkstyle to run whenever the project's build happens.
We can see in a newly imported project into Eclipse that its .project file does not contain any Checkstyle natures or build commands:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
<name>test-parent</name>
<comment></comment>
<projects>
</projects>
<buildSpec>
<buildCommand>
<name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
<arguments>
</arguments>
</buildCommand>
</buildSpec>
<natures>
<nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
</natures>
</projectDescription>
After selecting Activate Checkstyle, the build command and nature are added to the .project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
<name>test-parent</name>
<comment></comment>
<projects>
</projects>
<buildSpec>
<buildCommand>
<name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
<arguments>
</arguments>
</buildCommand>
<buildCommand>
<name>net.sf.eclipsecs.core.CheckstyleBuilder</name>
<arguments>
</arguments>
</buildCommand>
</buildSpec>
<natures>
<nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
<nature>net.sf.eclipsecs.core.CheckstyleNature</nature>
</natures>
</projectDescription>
Is there any way to activate Checkstyle immediately upon import of the Maven project into Eclipse so that the .project will already have the build commands & natures?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this is impossible as not implemented in the latest version of Maven Eclipse integration (m2e). See https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/m2e-dev/msg01783.html for more details.
Here people discussed how to hack this by writing an Eclipse Mojo that updates .project appropriately after the import: https://github.com/oasp/oasp4j-ide/issues/1 . But this is still not done by anybody I believe.