08 - Eclipse Plugin for Maven and Maven Plugin for Eclipse

More plugins! We'll use the Maven's Eclipse plugin to get our Maven project into the Eclipse IDE. We'll also download and install the m2eclipse plugin of Eclipse to bring Maven functionality into the Eclipse GUI.

mvn eclipse:eclipse now we can see .settings and .project files

Open you eclipse import->Existing project->Browser the root directory->finish

In some cases you might an exclamatory (!) mark, it is due to unbound classpath variable (missing of jar path).  Here we just right click -> properties -> java build path -> Libraries ->configure M2_Repo

Add variable->configure variable->new->M2_REPO= provide repository path (c:/user/yash/.m2/repository)->ok

Install maven plugin in eclipse

Help-> install new software -> work with(All available sites)-> search for maven->click Maven integration for eclipse->next->next->finish(restart eclipse)