Is possible to access Maven (embedded) console in Eclipse like in shell (linux shell, windows cmd.exe) to run custom maven commands (mvn archetype:create.... etc) ? I'm using m2e, but can run Maven commands only by GUI.
You can run custom maven commands directly from Eclipse by doing:
Run -> Run Configurations... -> Maven Build
You'll need just some Maven plugin for Eclipse like m2e.
maybe you can use "external tools" function to do it.
see:
In Eclipse, choose “Run -> External Tools -> External Tools Configurations
In "Program", click “New Launch Configuration”
Config your console name, location, working directory
"run"
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I highly recommend shell plugin for Eclipse: Wicked shell (http://www.wickedshell.net/)
Sadly I don't know about any Eclipse plugin to do that :(
A long time ago (in the Maven 1 era) there was a Maven goal called "console" that allowed you to execute goals in a pre-loaded maven instance. But that feature was discontinued in Maven 2.
For new versions of Maven (Maven 3), the folks at Sonatype made a Maven Shell which I think will do what you want: http://shell.sonatype.org/index.html
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I have M2Eclipse plugin installed on my eclipse, and now I am reading a book that says to use the mvn command, I think that I could use eclipse IDE to follow the book, but I want to know a little more about maven. Of course, the command "mvn" is not recognized, I need to edit my PATH variable.
I googled where is maven installed, and the answer is that it is an apache tool and the path is where you want to unzip the package.
BUT, what if I don´t want to install the apache project?? Is there any other option, because how I say at the beginning, I have M2Eclipse plugin installed, so I image that the executable file must to be in some folder into the plugin eclipse path... or does it use only java jar libraries without a binary??
Thank you very much.
M2E is a plugin in Eclipse and not Maven. You are using an embedded Maven version which is part of Ecilpse. You should always install Maven to be useable via command line cause there are difference between M2E/Eclipse and command line.
You can run any mvn goal by clicking on a maven project, than right click and select Run As -> Maven Build... and type any goal you want.
I upgraded to Eclipse Juno(for Java EE developers). I installed Maven Integration for Eclipse through marketplace.
Just to test, I created a web app using maven-archetype-webapp. I cannot run on server(There's no menu Run On Server). The same happens with another maven project which runs fine using Eclipse Indigo. A tried deleting .settings, .classpath, .project then re-importing the project but nothing. I was hoping so much on Juno!
Does anyone know a real solution to this problem?
May be Dynamic Web Module in Project Facet is not selected
Go to :- Project > Properties > Project Facets > check Dynamic Web Module
How about installing the m2e-wtp plugin and trying? You would want to confirm that the maven project is of war packaging as well.
Run on server is not a maven feature, it's a "classic eclipse" feature.
In order to run a maven project on a server you must adopt a plug-in (e.g a Jetty plug-in for your webapp) and the run the proper maven goal (e.g jetty-run).
Said this, you can run a web project on a server with (right-click) > Run as > Run on server if you have the proper runtime environment configured.
Enabling "Dynamic Web Module" in Project Facets may not help here in maven projects.
Because maven projects are structured differently (target/sampleApp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war) than the normal Dynamic Web Projects (WebContent/).
So, If you use Dynamic Web Module manually, then eclipse will try to use "WebContent" directory structure as deployment directory for Application Server which won't be the case in maven projects.
Solution is to use m2e-wtp plugin to do the deployment.
If you installed m2e-wtp plugin, it'll automatically detect your maven project type & it'll show you the "Run as Server" option in "Run as" menu in "Project".
I'm using the Indigo Release of eclipse. When I check Window -> Preferences, Maven -> Installations, it confirms that it's using the Embedded (3.0.2/...) installation of Maven.
I want to be able to run maven commands from the command line (Windows Powershell), but when I type, e.g.,
PS C:\> mvn
no executable is found. I did a search for "mvn.exe" and found no results.
I suppose I could install a stand-alone version of Maven 3 and add that to my PATH, but I'd prefer to be using the same Maven installation for command line tasks as well as IDE (eclipse) tasks.
So, where is the embedded maven's mvn.exe hiding?
The simple answer is, cause it's embedded in Eclipse so you can't call it from console. If you like to do this you have to install Maven yourself.
There is no mvn.exe at all. The Maven distro comes with batch or shell scripts. Eclipse runs an embedded version which is called through an API.
remember, embedded maven is not configured to work out of eclipse environment (and terminal usage is out of STS usage).
we have to install maven.
and also note, there is no "mvn.exe"
follow the following to setup maven to work from terminal.
maven download link is here
download latest maven from here
extract it where ever you want.
i extracted as below (see the bin,boot,conf,... folders are shown below as in the image):
as this maven download is extracted from zip file (it is not setup), you will have to add this extracted path to "PATH" variable in windows environment.
follow this to set environment path:
now "mvn" command must work.
in my case, i use STS (spring tool suite)
and i had to restart STS for "mvn" to work in terminal in sts.
check it out with eclipse.
Is there some kind of way of binding an external build command to the eclipse clean action?
If it helps, I am using :
Apache Maven 2.2.1
Eclipse Galileo 3.5
M2Eclipse plugin (which I know offers an option to run mvn clean)
Under Project Properties -> Maven -> Lifecycle Mapping you can configure which goals to run AFTER a clean s involed on this project
In general, you can wire any external tool, to be invoked during a particular build lifecycle event by going to Project Properties -> Builders page. There you will be able to define a new tool and specify when it should run.
I basically have 2 questions:
Is there a way to invoke maven console from eclipse? (where I could write eclipse:eclipse, and it started building eclipse project)
Where does STS unpack it's maven? I'd like to add that path to env variables, so that I could use it from my windows console.
Is there a way to invoke maven console from eclipse? (where I could write eclipse:eclipse, and it started building eclipse project)
You could open a shell inside eclipse , cd into the right directory and run the maven console from there. But, when using M2Eclipse (see next point), you're not supposed to run eclipse:eclipse.
Where does STS unpack it's maven? I'd like to add that path to env variables, so that I could use it from my windows console.
STS bundles M2Eclipse which comes with an embedded version of Maven (so it doesn't "unpack" Maven). But you can Configure M2Eclipse to use an external version. Go to window > Preference > Maven > Installations and Add... your external install:
Try the m2eclipse plugin from sonatype and you can eliminate use of 'mvn eclipse:eclipse' altogether. After installing m2eclipse and restarting eclipse, select File->Import->Maven->Existing Maven project. Browse to your maven project and select it. The m2eclipse plugin reads the pom and creates an eclipse project (this is the step that 'mvn eclipse:eclipse' gives). There are other useful features of the m2eclipse plugin including pom editor.
m2eclipse project is moving out of sonatype into the eclipse foundation project page and will be released on the Indigo train.
See this page for more info on m2eclipse: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/