Maven “Module” vs “Project” (Eclipse, m2eclipse plugin)

Question

I\'m a beginner at Maven and I\'ve played with it from a command line point of view a little, so now I was trying to use it in Eclipse; I installed the m2eclipse plugin to d

Answer 1

Found it! My searches were returning tons of hits for creating a "multi-module project", but once I added "-multi" to my query, the answer was on the first page.

According to Creating and Importing Projects:

m2eclipse provides the ability to create a Maven module. Creating a Maven module is almost identical to creating a Maven project as it also creates a new Maven project using a Maven archetype. However, a Maven module is a subproject of another Maven project typically known as a parent project.