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We recently started using maven for dependency management. Our team uses eclipse as it's IDE. Is there an easy way to get eclipse to refresh the maven dependencies without running mvn eclipse:eclipse?
The dependencies are up to date in the local maven repository, but eclipse doesn't pick up the changes until we use the eclipse:eclipse command. This regenerates a lot of eclipse configuration files.
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Via the Maven index, you can search for dependencies, select them and add them to your pom file. To download the index, select Windows > Preferences > Maven and enable the Download repository index updates on startup option. After changing this setting, restart Eclipse. This triggers the download of the Maven index.
Have you tried using the m2eclipse plugin? I use it with eclipse and it maintains the eclipse .classpath when I add dependencies. It'll also check for updated dependencies.
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You generate the special eclipse files with mvn eclipse:eclipse, but once you've done that, you should let a plugin handle the dependencies while inside eclipse.
That's how we do it at my work place, and it generally works well.
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