Eclipse m2eclipse getting dependencies from local repository

Question

I have dependencies installed local on my machine (~/.m2/repository/blah/blah/blah) and m2eclipse is not recognizing them as there - I think m2eclipse is using its own maven ins

Answer 1

I was getting the exact same issue. I added the JARs to the local repository via the install-file command. I verified they were installed. I rebuilt the index. I went to the directory and inspected the JAR file using 7Zip, but I could not get it to appear in the Maven Dependencies inside of my eclipse project.

For me the solution was pretty silly. When I added the dependency into the pom.xml using the dependencies editor, Maven threw in a packaging stanza into the XML. So the XML entry looked like:

    
        slf4j
        jdk14
        1.5.8
        JAR
    

When I removed the last stanza "JAR" and made the entry:

    
        slf4j
        jdk14
        1.5.8
    

it all worked fine.