Maven does not add classpath to Eclipse project

Question

I have a maven project, that I\'m working on Eclipse.

I use maven eclipse:eclipse to generate the classpath, but ... it NEVER adds the classpath on the eclipse proj

Answer 1

You need to add the extra source folders to the pom.xml with the build-helper-maven-plugin. Then run

mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse

For example this pom.xml ..

    4.0.0

    mygroup
    artifact
    1.0-SNAPSHOT
    jar

    artifact
    http://maven.apache.org

    
        UTF-8
    

    
        
            junit
            junit
            3.8.1
            test
        
    

    
        
            
                org.codehaus.mojo
                build-helper-maven-plugin
                1.7
                
                    
                        add-source
                        generate-sources
                        
                            add-source
                        
                        
                            
                                client/src/main/java
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        add-resource
                        generate-resources
                        
                            add-resource
                        
                        
                            
                                
                                    client/src/main/resources
                                    resources
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

Generates this .classpath

Make sure the folders exist, if the path is incorrect they wont be added. Look for this in the maven log.

[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/artifact/src/main/resources

My team found the eclipse maven plugins to be unstable, opting to create our entire eclipse config through maven.