Skip to main content
Add as a preferred source on Google


Eclipse 'Lynchpin' for Maven

  • By John K. Waters
  • 08/11/08

Eclipse developers will soon have an easier time integrating with Maven, the popular Java open source build framework.

Sonatype, the new commercial Maven company, recently announced that its Maven Integration for Eclipse (m2eclipse) plugin is becoming an Eclipse Technology Project.

The Apache Maven Project is a framework and repository that can be used for building and managing Java-based projects, with a goal of letting the "developer comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time," according to the project homepage. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), "Maven can manage a project's build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information," the homepage said.

Sonatype, which was founded by the engineers behind the Maven project, has joined Eclipse to integrate the Maven framework and repository with Eclipse projects. The link, called m2eclipse, provides tight integration with the Eclipse IDE -- Sonatype bills it as the "lynchpin" between Eclipse and Maven.

Released under the EPL 1.0 license, some of the features of m2eclipse include dependency-management features, new wizards, and the ability to launch Maven builds from within the IDE.

Maven has a devoted following; project managers claim more than 2 million copies downloaded and more than 75 million hits per month to the Maven central repository.

The first version of m2eclipse is due by the end of September, and Zyl said it hopes to see the plugin ship with Eclipse 3.5. (Eclipse 3.4 was released with the Ganymede release train in June.) In the meantime, Mavin Integration for Eclipse is available here.

About the Author

John K. Waters is a freelance journalist and author based in Mountain View, CA.

Featured

  • Abstract polygonal hacker with laptop on technology dark background

    Cybersecurity Researchers Identify First Fully Autonomous AI-Driven Ransomware Attack

    Threat researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig have disclosed what they describe as the first documented ransomware operation carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, with no human typing commands or directing individual steps once the attack was underway.

  • woman

    AI Giants Back Nonprofit Focused on Workforce Transition

    The AI industry's biggest names are investing in more than just models and infrastructure — they're focusing on workforce readiness. OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are backing Raise US, a new nonprofit that aims to raise $1 billion to help American workers prepare for an AI-driven economy.

  • Neon blue security locks with a single red highlight

    AI Shifts Cybersecurity Focus from Finding Flaws to Fixing Them

    For decades, one of cybersecurity's most difficult challenges has been finding vulnerabilities before attackers do. A growing number of security professionals now say artificial intelligence is changing that equation, shifting the focus from discovering flaws to fixing them quickly enough to prevent exploitation.

  • digital brain with network connections

    Microsoft Moving to Internally Developed AI Models in Office Apps

    Microsoft is reportedly using its own in-house artificial intelligence models to handle some workloads in Excel and Outlook, offering new evidence that the company is moving its AI strategy beyond model development and into large-scale cost reduction.