Maven + App Engine + Google Eclipse Plugin

Question

Is there a way I can have a Maven compatible Google App Engine (Java) project that is also compatible with the Google Eclipse Plugin inside Eclipse?

Thanks!

EDIT:

Native support for a Maven plugin now:

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/maven

Answer 1

Depends on what you mean by "compatible" and it depends on what features you're using of GAE plugin. We use the appengine maven plugin http://code.google.com/p/maven-gae-plugin/ and eclipse and they seem to work fine together but we're not using GWT or JDO. As with most things maven/eclipse I find it's best to run your stuff from the command line and just use eclipse as an editor.

Answer 2

I use maven and GAE since one year with JDO with no problems. Here is my configuration on MacOSX Snow Leopard:

• Apache Maven 3.0.3
• Eclipse Version: 3.7.1
• m2e - Maven Integration for Eclipse 1.0.100.20110804-1717

An important thing to have fully integrated Eclipse with Maven (run all the tests both from command line "mvn test" and from JUnit interface inside Eclipse) is to have the .project file in this way:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
    <name>PROJECT_NAME</name>
    <comment></comment>
    <projects>
    </projects>
    <buildSpec>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
    </buildSpec>
    <natures>
        <nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
        <nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
    </natures>
</projectDescription>

The plugin has moved here: https://github.com/maven-gae-plugin/maven-gae-plugin