Apache Maven Eclipse Plugin Version 2.10 Released

calendar May 28, 2015 · 1 min read  ·
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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Eclipse Plugin, version 2.10.

This plugin is used to generate Eclipse IDE files (*.classpath, *.project, *.wtpmodules and the .settings folder) for use with a project - if the M2E Eclipse-Plugin does not fit you.

This release is the last one supporting Maven 2.

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.10</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven Eclipse Plugin - Version 2.10

Bugs:

  • MECLIPSE-731 - eclipse:clean not deleting ./settings folder that it creates
  • MECLIPSE-738 - NullPointerException in LinkedResource if is present in .project

Improvements:

  • MECLIPSE-697 - Delete deprecated code
  • MECLIPSE-721 - Improve documentation to explain why Eclipse sometimes does not import projects with correct project names.
  • MECLIPSE-754 - UPdate plexus-archiver to 2.9,plexus-utils to 3.0.18 and maven-archiver to 2.5
  • MECLIPSE-756 - Fix RAT Report
  • MECLIPSE-757 - Add proper classpath entry names for Java 7 / 8
  • MECLIPSE-758 - Use mojo annotations

New Feature:

  • MECLIPSE-759 - Add goal to resolve dependencies in .classpath files of a workspace

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team