maven build goal need to specify

Question

I have extracted a sample Struts 2 project and it has the maven pom.xml file. I already installed the m2e plugin for eclipse. But when I right click the pom.xml file and sel

Answer 1

You can build a maven project with m2e by right-clicking your project or your .pom, selecting Run as then Maven build... then write package into the goal field and click Run.

The according keyboard shortcut is Alt+Ctrl+X, then m - it will get you to the same dialog.

The result will probably be a .war file in the target subfolder of your project.