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I'm sorry if I am asking a possibly-trivial question, but I am having so much trouble finding out exactly what Resolve Workspace Artifacts does in the Maven build window in the Eclipse IDE, using the M2Eclipse plugin. I'm referring to this: Does anyone have any idea? I tried google-ing and stackoverflow-ing the solution; there are lots of bug requests/reports but no clear-cut descriptions of this option. Thanks for the help. Yogendra Singh Assume you have two or more projects in your workspace e.g. project1 , project2 and so on. If project1 is dependent on project2 and project3 , you just need

Maven is great. It mostly keeps me out of jar dependency hell by specifying versions of dependent packages in the pom configuration, and applies them automatically. It also has great integration with Eclipse via m2e, so that things work seamlessly in an IDE. This is all great for dependencies that are globally known to Maven. However, sometimes, there are libraries that need to be included in a project that is not available in the Maven repos. In this case, I usually add them to a lib/ directory in my project. As long as they are in the classpath then things compile. However, the problem is

With intent to get m2e 1.0 working correctly I have had to specify the lifecycle mapping: <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId> <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <configuration> <lifecycleMappingMetadata> <pluginExecutions> <pluginExecution> <pluginExecutionFilter> <groupId>org.bsc.maven</groupId> <artifactId>maven-processor-plugin</artifactId> <versionRange>[2.0.2,)</versionRange> <goals> <goal>process</goal> </goals> </pluginExecutionFilter> <action> <execute /> </action> </pluginExecution> </pluginExecutions> <

I am trying to use the maven-warpath-plugin available here . But I keep getting an error in my pom.xml file that says: Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.appfuse.plugins:maven-warpath-plugin:2.1.0:add-classes (execution: default, phase: generate-sources) How do I resolve this? Here is my pom.xml snippet for the plugin: <plugin> <groupId>org.appfuse.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-warpath-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1.0</version> <extensions>true</extensions> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>add-classes</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin>

I am starting to configure my development environment and I am using Spring Tool Suite 2.8.1 along with m2E 1.01. As far as I can tell, since this is a Maven Project (my first), my Maven POM is dictating (along with m2E smarts) my project build configuration and dependencies. What I would like to know is why my IDE is displaying Java Build Problems that read "Archive required for library library/path/somejar.jar cannot be read or is not a valid zip file" when I can see the jars in my .m2 repository? All the errors pertained to commons-logging:1.1.1 which I excluded in my parent-pom. This was a