Thank you guys,

I do need to debug. 

It was not obvious at all to me how to import existing java web maven
project into eclipse wtp project using m2 eclipse plugin. And I tried to
figure it out.

Do you have a hint or two?

Thanks

-MB


mgainty wrote:
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> m2 is the better solution if you need to debug
> curious as to what term CI means?
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> Martin 
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>> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:39:17 -0400
>> Subject: Re: maven eclipse plugin and wtp
>> From: w...@wantii.com
>> To: users@maven.apache.org
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:27 AM,
>> massive.boisson<massive.bois...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi, I have a maven project (that is web project by its nature) and I
>> want to
>> > run it in eclipse as WTP project.
>> >
>> > I found command (on
>> > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/wtp.html):
>> > mvn -Dwtpversion=R7 eclipse:eclipse
>> > Where wtpversion can be R7, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 or none (default).
>> >
>> >
>> > As current wtp version is 3.1, can I use
>> > mvn -Dwtpversion=3.1 eclipse:eclipse
>> >
>> >
>> > Or is there a new or prefered way to do this?
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> When you specify the WTP version, you are telling the plugin which
>> type of configuration to generate. Eclipse has the ability to "import"
>> from older versions, so even though WTP version 2.0 is from '08, it
>> shouldn't hurt to use 2.0, then let eclipse import it.
>> 
>> At the same time, when using the eclipse plugin, you should ask
>> yourself which you want to depend on more, eclipse or maven? Eclipse
>> and maven both handle many similar tasks, but if you use the eclipse
>> functionality, you are locked into eclipse... There are many eclipse
>> tools that are helpful, but for building and testing, I prefer to
>> leave it to maven. That being the case, what does WTP give you that is
>> most important? IMO, it's the ability to run your web-app right from
>> the IDE... You can install a tomcat runtime right in WTP and tell
>> eclipse to run your web-app in it. If this is the feature you are
>> looking for, then I would say that you could do one better and use the
>> maven-tomcat-plugin to get the same functionality.
>> 
>> Instead of using the maven-eclipse-plugin to generate eclipse
>> configuration files, try using the m2eclipse eclipse plugin to have
>> eclipse become more "maven-aware". Then, you can create an eclipse run
>> configuration that launches 'mvn tomcat:run'. You will have the
>> ability to debug your web-app using the eclipse debugger. In addition,
>> you will also have the nifty pom editory that comes with m2eclipse.
>> This will leave you with a project that is more portable across IDEs,
>> in case someone on your team later decides to use something other than
>> eclipse. In addition, your build/test process can be run in a CI
>> environment like hudson.
>> 
>> -Wes
>> 
>> -- 
>> Wes Wannemacher
>> 
>> Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc.
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