So you want to use Eclipse, Maven, and not have to duplicate Checkstyle, PMD, Findbugs, and all that jazz? Good luck. It’s *almost* black magic. Random eclipse update sites. Random projects. Clean, Install, hope it runs. So without further adieu, here is the list I use to reliably get my workspace up and running.
First, a note on plugins. There are three required plugins that most people get confused about.
- m2eclipse – provides base maven-eclipse integration
- m2eclipse-extras – provides integration for web tools platform
- m2eclipse-extensions – provides integration for checkstyle
However, unless you randomly find m2eclipse-extensions, you probably won’t come across it. It’s sort of buried. Searching for “maven eclipse” yields loads of useless links. Dead projects. Stuff you don’t need. Gah!
So here’s the order of installation:
- Install m2eclipse-0.10 (as of writing) : http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/archives/m2e-0.10.2.20100623-1649/
- Install m2eclipse-extras WTP integration (for version 0.10): http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/archives/m2e-extras-20101029/
- Install eclipse-cs: http://eclipse-cs.sourceforge.net/
- Install PMD-eclipse: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse/
- Install Findbugs-Eclipse: http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/eclipse.html
- Install m2eclipse-extensions: http://code.google.com/p/m2e-extensions/
The reason 0.10 is required is because m2e-extensions only works with 0.10 (again, as of this writing).
Once you have all of these installed, if you have your project configured to use any of the checkstyle, pmd, or findbugs projects, reimporting the project should get things working for you.
