Automatically generate Java from .proto with maven/m2e in Eclipse IDE

Question

For my team, I\'d like to configure maven/eclipse build to automatically generate Java code from *.proto files (in a project that uses gRPC). Currently one need

Answer 1

Both eclipse and vscode can automatically compile proto when changed.

            
                kr.motd.maven
                os-maven-plugin
                1.6.2
                
                    
                        initialize
                        
                            detect
                        
                    
                
            
            
                org.xolstice.maven.plugins
                protobuf-maven-plugin
                0.6.1
                
                    com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.12.0:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
                    grpc-java
                    io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.32.1:exe:${os.detected.classifier}
                
                
                    
                        
                            compile
                            compile-custom
                        
                    
                
            
            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-compiler-plugin
                3.8.1
                
                    8
                    8
                    UTF-8