How to convert properly Eclipse project to Maven project? - eclipse

I have created in Eclipse Dynamic Web Project. Then I have selected option 'Convert to Maven Project' from 'Configure' from right-click menu. And now I can see red errors on Java Resources folder in my project. But none subfolder is with red error. In which way can I resolve that problem? I am using Eclipse Juno and m2e plugin.
I have recognized that m2n plugin haven't created src/main/java, src/main/resources and src/main/webapp directories in Java Resources. But the error is still the same.

The process in manually. You need to create a pom.xml and change your folder structure to follow Mavens conventions. I would recommend to create a web project via maven archetypes and move your project step-by-step into the new structure.

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Can't get eclipse kepler to deploy dependency projects of dynamic web project

I've recently upgraded from Eclipse Juno to Kepler, and have imported some old projects into a new workspace, but unfortunately I cannot get publishing of one of my web projects to work. It has dependencies on a couple of other projects in the same workspace, and these projects are listed in the 'deployment assembly' tab with entries like
Source Deploy Path
/eventserver WEB-INF/lib
that I have added using the 'Add/Project' option (I'm pretty sure I've previously used 'Add/Entries from Classpath' but that option does not list the projects, so I don't know what's going on). But neither the projects' code nor their dependencies are being deployed to WEB-INF/lib when I publish the main project. Also, I have the following warning showing up:
Description Resource Path Location Type
Projects must be referenced by an EAR or a WAR to use classpath publish/export dependencies whose runtime path (../) maps into the parent component. eventserver P/eventserver Classpath Dependency Validator Message
which I only used to get if I didn't have a main project that referred to the utility project.
Any ideas what's going on?
Create an EAR project using this link:
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/j2ee/scenarios/application_creation_tutorial.html
After creation, try to Add the Project in server entry.

Eclipse adding the project overrides maven dependency

I have a maven project that uses other small projects. And I added them to master's pom file.
So my Eclipse project properties looks like following:
>Master project
>Java Resources
>Libraries
>JRE System Library
>Maven dependencies
>smallProj1.jar
>smallProj2.jar
The thing is I do not have the all code for smallProj1 and smallProj2 and whenever add them to my workspace Eclipse overrides the maven dependencies and simply calls the two projects instead the jar files from my local maven repository and then I have all over the code those red underlines. Project properties in Eclipse looks as following after I add them to my workspace:
>Master project
>smallProj1
>smallProj2
>Java Resources
>Libraries
>JRE System Library
>Maven dependencies
>smallProj1 (not jar anymore - folder)
>smallProj2 (not jar anymore - folder)
Since I also want to have a look to smallProj1 and smallProj2 code while I am coding, I want to keep them both in my workspace. But I want my Master project to use the jar files that I provided, not the small projects in the workspace.
Any ideas on that?
You could right click on a project and set "Maven" -> "Disable Workspace Resolution". This will let Maven find the dependencies from Maven and not within the workspace. I don't think it is possible to do this on a dependency basis.
But I think in your case it would be better to fix the broken smallProjX in your workspace (as they exactly contain the code you need), so that the master project could be build correctly.

Tell eclipse to use Source and not Jar

I have a maven project that depends on a jar (say A). When running the project, it uses the jar under Maven dependencies.
I have the source of A with me and its opened as a project in Eclipse. When I run the project I need to use the source and not the jar. How do I tell Eclipse to use the source and not the jar?
m2eclipse does this by default, if that is a full Maven project. See the context menu in the screen shot of http://www.sonatype.com/books/m2eclipse-book/reference/eclipse.html#eclipse-sect-resolving-dependencies, where it says "Disable workspace resolution".
If you don't find that context menu entry for your project, then you probably have a Java project with a POM file, which is not marked as Maven project type in Eclipse. Use the context menu Configure->Convert to Maven project in that case.
I had problems with the workspace resolution of m2eclipse as well. It would recognize the dependency (A) and show a different icon in the dependency view (which indicates that the dependency is resolved from the workspace) but the classes were not found.
Only when I ran a mvn install on project A all artifacts were generated and the resolution started to work. Maybe that helps.
Also I found a couple of hints (related to not working workspace resulotion) that suggested to (re-)import the project again using "Existing Maven Projects" wizard.

Eclipse and Maven configuration

I'm new to Maven. I've just installed and configured it.
When I started coding, I realized Eclipse doesn't show the error messages.
I haven't found anything helpful by searching Google. Some sources say to add java builder to your project but I already did.
Here's a screenshot.
It looks, that you had project in eclipse configured to have source code in 'src' subdirectory (and compile classes to 'bin').
Maven by default looks for java sources in src/main/java (and compile classes to 'target/classes').
So you'd need to move your source code to src/main/java or modify pom.xml to point to 'src' as source directory.
I'd suggest following maven convention and store source code in src/main/java.
You didn't create the Maven standard folder structure.
Create the structure like that:
src/main/java for Java classes and src/main/resources for properties etc., then do a right click on the project and choose Maven -> Update project configuration.

Maven project is in a subfolder, can't get Eclipse integration to work

Inside the folder 'ProjectName' exists several subfolders, and of them contains java program:
ProjectName
Specifications
JavaCode
Gfx
...
JavaCode folder contains pom.xml.
I have installed m2eclipse (0.10.x) to Eclipse and imported whole ProjectName folder to Eclipse. Subfolders are displayed correctly but maven integration is not working correctly - for example I don't see src/main/java "shortcut" folder in Eclipse, but I have to click to open all folders.
If I create a new maven project with Eclipse from scratch, the integration works well.
What could be the issue?
Select the JavaCode folder and then invoke File... / Import... / Maven Project. That would bring your Java code into Eclipse as a proper project with Maven support enabled. It is fine to import several overlapping folders. So, you could use the parent for version control purposes and JavaCode would be the actual Java project you'd work with in the IDE.
Unfortunately there is no way around that, unless you want to move your pom.xml to the root project and remap all the Maven plugins to folders under JavaCode project. But that would be really bad idea and Maven integration for Eclipse may not work with such project structure without an additional tweaking.