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- <h1>Maven Eclipse</h1>
- <h2>Good news! m2eclipse is moving to eclipse.org!</h2>
- <p>After years at <a href="http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/">Codehaus</a> (thanks!),
- we're getting closer to the eclipse.org projects we work with,
+ <h1>m2eclipse is moving to eclipse.org!</h1>
+ <p>After years at <a href="http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/">Codehaus</a>,
+ we're moving to get closer to the eclipse.org projects we work with,
like PDE, WTP, and AJDT.
- We are staying at
- <a href="http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/">http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/</a>
- for one more release, and will move when we have everything set up so
- everyone can do everything right here.</p>
- <p>We will soon be caught in details like feature lists, so now is a good time
+ We are staying at Codehaus for one more release, but we'll ask everyone
+ to come over once we have everything set up here.</p>
+
+ <p>Before we get caught up in details, now is a good time
to step back and talk about why we think bringing Maven to Eclipse could be very fruitful.
- If you see more benefits or potential risks, let's talk about it
- (see <a href="#contacts">below</a>).
+ If you see more benefits or potential risks or if you'd like to participate,
+ let's talk about it (see <a href="#contacts">below</a>).
</p>
<h2>Why Maven and Eclipse?</h2>
<p>Maven helps Eclipse build, and Eclipse helps people use Maven.
- That makes it much easier for the Eclipse IDE to build more kinds of software projects,
- and easier for more Eclipse projects to be built on the command-line or in
- a process of continuous integration.
+ With Maven, Eclipse will build more kinds of software projects both in the IDE
+ and on the command-line, e.g., in a process of continuous integration.
</p>
<p>The <a href="http://maven.apache.org/">Apache Maven project</a> describes
Maven as a "software project management and comprehension tool". Maven is used in
thousands of open-source and commercial software projects to simplify building
and understanding software of all stripes. Maven is great at doing command-line
- builds, producing reports and documentation, and sharing code in binary repositories.
+ builds, understanding project structure and relationships,
+ and sharing code in binary repositories. It's easy to write and configure a
+ Maven plug-in for a given build task, and hundreds of plug-ins are available.
</p>
<p>The Eclipse IDE is great at supporting interactive software development, with
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by Maven (because it is a much harder problem to write good UI support).
</p>
- <p>So Eclipse can make working with Maven easier, and Maven can make it supporting
- many kinds of software in Eclipse easier. Eclipse makes it easier to
- write Maven metadata and work with Maven dependencies. Maven makes it easier
- to manage library dependencies, to assemble projects, and to build from the command-line
- in a process of continuous integration. All this helps both developers writing software and
+ <p>They can help each other out.
+ Eclipse can make it easier to work with Maven, and Maven can make it easier to
+ support complex projects using different programming models.
+ Eclipse editors make it easy to find and maintain project information, and
+ the Eclipse Java tools can use the Maven dependencies like any others for compiling,
+ searching, content assist, etc. (even in derived project types like WTP and AJDT).
+ Maven conventions and software repositories make it easy to manage library
+ dependencies, to assemble projects, and to build from the command-line in a
+ process of continuous integration. All this helps both developers writing software and
plug-in projects implementing software build or assembly processes.
</p>
- <p>Hence, we have three offerings,
- for software developers, Eclipse plug-in developers, and software build engineers:</p>
+ <p>Hence, we have something for everyone:</p>
<ol>
<li><em>Maven Eclipse Tools</em>, the UI for developers using Maven to make software</li>
<li><em>Maven Eclipse Frameworks</em>, the API's for Eclipse plug-in's using Maven to
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</li>
<li>
- <form method="post" action="http://www.sonatype.com/m2eclipse/announce">If you want us to let you know when we've moved, shoot us your email address:
+ <form method="post" action="http://www.sonatype.com/m2eclipse/announce">If you want us to let you know when we've moved, let us know your email address:
<br><input name="email" maxlength="150" size="25" type="text">
<font size="-1">(This is just between us.)</font>
</form>
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<p>
The m2eclipse team
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