I'm not much of an Eclipse user, but if I remember correctly Kepler comes with Maven out of the box.

Your mileage may vary (I mostly use NetBeans).

Mark
/mde/

On 10/24/2013 3:37 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
I do happen to use Eclipse, and all I've installed is the m2e plugin
from Help menu. Is this what you are talking about?

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Ron Wheeler
<rwhee...@artifact-software.com> wrote:
The easy way to figure out what is happening is to use Eclipse/STS as your
IDE and then you have nice gui tools that will tell you where your sources
are supposed to be.
It is free and comes ready to build with maven.
It has a nice editor for pom files and a window that shows you what you
effective POM is and another that shows you your whole maven dependency tree
with nice little notes about version conflicts and which one Maven has
selected for your pleasure.

Ron


On 24/10/2013 4:23 PM, Laird Nelson wrote:

mvn help:effective-pom will spit out the pom made up of the defaults plus
anything you've overridden or added.  Stand back; it's huge.

Best,
Laird


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, <rand...@kamradtfamily.net> wrote:

Maven has a 'convention over configuration' philosophy, which means that
the pom.xml doesn't need to specify paths that are in the conventional
places.  So unless otherwise configured, it will look in src/main/java
for
all of it's (non-test) source code.  You should be able to find the
conventions listed on the maven site, or the site for a particular
plug-in.

I find this very helpful in creating minimalist pom.xml files for the
standard 'make me a jar, test, document, and put it some where it can be
found' process.  But it can be a pain if you don't know where the
conventional places are, and any deviation often results in a great
multitude of google searches to find the man behind the curtain.

--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Trying to understand how
maven finds source
From: "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>
Date: 10/24/13 1:04 pm
To: "Maven" <users@maven.apache.org>

Hey everyone,

   I'm trying to understand something basic, I haven't been able to find
   the answer through Google surprisingly (maybe my searching abilities
   suck today). How is it that Maven is able to find source code to
   compile? What I would expect is the pom.xml to refer to some *.java
   path (something like <source>src/main/java/*</source>), but I don't
   see anything like that.

   How does maven know what java source code to compile? Thanks in
   advance for any help.

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