To run from eclipse you would have to look at the Eclipse plugin. [1] Basically, you would run mvn eclipse:eclipse (optional: -DdownloadSources=true and/or -DdownloadJavadoc=true) and create a M2_REPO variable inside Eclipse. This would set up your classpath for eclipse.
To create a runnable version of your application, take a look at the appassembler plugin[2]. This will create startup scripts, copy all your libs, generally just create the right structure in your target directory. After that, you can wrap it up with the assembly plugin[3], to create .zip, .tar.gz or such files. Hth, Nick Stolwijk [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/ [2] http://mojo.codehaus.org/appassembler/appassembler-maven-plugin/ [3] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/ -----Original Message----- From: Ian Godman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/25/2007 8:49 AM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: new to maven Hi I am new to Maven 2. I have been converting an application consisting of 4 eclipse projects, 3 producing library jars the the final one running the application. I have got to the stage where every thing now compiles and the 3 jar files are deployed in my repository (I am using artifactory). My application also compiles. My issues is that despite a lot of reading I still can not work out how to run my application! There are external jars required, these are set as dependencies in the POM. What I would like to achieve is to be able to run the application from within the eclipse debug environment. To do this I need to get not only the generated jar files but also the library jars and the XML configuration files on the class path. Ideally also in a directory so that I can copy it and run the application on another machine. I am sure this is not difficult to do but at this moment in time I am unable to work it out. Ian ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html
