> -----Original Message----- > From: m2e-users-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:m2e-users- > boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Steinar Bang > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:28 PM > To: m2e-users@eclipse.org > Subject: [m2e-users] Creating and editing a parent POM in the workspace > directory? > > Platform: debian testing ("wheezy"), > eclipse 3.8.0, > m2e 0.12.1.20110112-1712 (installed from > http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e ) > > The natural thing for maven projects in a workspace, would be to have a > parent POM in the workspace itself. > > Is there a way to create and maintain a pom.xml file in the workspace > directory, using m2e? And if so: from which version?
If you want to resolve to a pom in the workspace, you have to have a project that contains that pom. You simply have to have a project with a single file, being that pom file. > Here is what I've found out: > If there is a parent POM in the workspace directory, when you create a > new maven project, the parent POM will be used in the new project, and > the new project will become a module in the parent POM. > > But there is not (at least I haven't found) any way to create the > parent > POM from inside m2e or eclipse...? Is there a way to do this in newer > versions of m2e? > > Also, opening the parent POM from the m2e POM editor on the pom.xml > file > of the project, won't work. You get a dialog saying "Could not resolve > artifact". > > Presumably this means that you could see the parent POM if you haved > done "mvn install" in the workspace to install that POM in your local > repository...? But even if you could open the parent POM in that case, > you would be editing the wrong POM (a copy, not the original file). > > The eGit explorer will let you open the workspace pom.xml file in an > editor (which by default is the m2e POM editor). But the eGit explorer > won't let you create a pom.xml file if there isn't any there. > > Neither the Project Explorer nor any of the other explorers that relate > to workspace and projects, will let you see anything in the workspace > itself. > > Thanks! > > > - Steinar > > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > m2e-users@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users _______________________________________________ m2e-users mailing list m2e-users@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users
