Eclipse and Maven: IAM and m2e complete creation review

 It’s a good day for Eclipse and Maven users, with two integration projects passing creation review to enter the incubator at Eclipse:

• The Eclipse Integration for Apache Maven (IAM)
• The m2eclipse Project

With both projects growing in maturity every day and each with their own unique features and focus, Maven users should look forward to two good choices and (hopefully healthy!) competition for some time to come.

I now use IAM’s seed project, q4e, every day without any issues – in fact, better Maven support is one of the reasons I switched to Eclipse from IDEA as my primary IDE. I find that the way I work at this point in time, switching regularly between a number of open source projects, that this became one of the most important features for me. Apart from seamlessly handling the changes to the POM in the background, the WTP support has been a great win for me.

WTP support added to Q for Eclipse

A nice surprise this morning was waking up to a message from Abel that he has implemented basic WTP support (for dynamic web applications only) in Q for Eclipse’s development version. I fired it up, imported my Archiva pom.xml files and it worked first go deploying to Tomcat.

Check out the screencast (mirror) he put together for a demo.