Generating a Maven POM from an existing project?

Question

Do any of the IDEs (or any other tool for that matter) have the ability to generate a POM based on an existing project?

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Answer 1

Your existing project probably does not use Maven, so creating a POM based on it isn't trivial.

The simplest way I can think of is to get the Maven plugin for Eclipse, generate a new maven project and then add your code.

You'll also need to manage external jars using Maven's method. In this case, they would probably be system jars.