Missing the ‘maven package’ menu entry in eclipse

Question

I'm using Eclipse 3.7 with m2eclipse. Previously I know there was a menu entry ‘maven package’ but since I reinstalled Ubuntu there is no entry and I have to ‘maven install’ to do the same.

Now I'm wondering if it is possible to get the ‘maven package’ back so I could test something without installing it and allow other projects to use the test version as dependency.

Answer 1

I also recently wanted to have this option with the new version of m2eclipse. The best solution i could find is, to create a configuration with the goal package, and as base directory give a variable name ${selected_resource_loc}. Still you have to go to run configurations page, but at least you don't have to define a new configuration for each project, but use the predefined one.

• right-click project
• run as
• run configurations..
• double click maven build (to create a new configuration)
• give a name for configuration e.g. package
• click variables
• select "selected_resource_loc" and click ok
• write your goal e.g. "package" or "clean package"
• run

The next time when you want to package another project, you can use this configuration again:

• right-click project
• run as
• run configurations..
• select your maven configuration
• run

At least you will not have to create a new configuration each time you want to package, as with maven build...

Answer 2

Just use Maven Build... and type package in the goal field.