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There is two available Eclipse plugins for Maven :
m2eclipse seems to be the oldest but the more robust. Is there any key differences between the two ?
Which one should be chosen for a project starting today and why ?
UPDATE: m2eclipse is moving to eclipse.org and will be included in the Indigo release train (Eclipse 3.7). See m2e at Eclipse: What will this mean for you? and m2eclipse is moving to eclipse.org!. The accepted answer is thus even more correct.
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M2Eclipse provides tight integration for Apache Maven into the Eclipse IDE with the following features: Launching Maven builds from within Eclipse. Dependency management for Eclipse build path based on Maven's pom. xml.
By "use install a Maven plugin and use it" I am sure you are looking for a Eclipse plugin that will perform Maven functions within the IDE. If so, M2E is a good choice. You will find a lot of help within the Eclipse installation once you install M2E.
The Maven Eclipse Plugin is used to generate Eclipse IDE files (*. classpath, *. project, *. wtpmodules and the . settings folder) for use with a project.
I choose m2eclipse since it is stable and have all that I need. Especially ability to resolve dependencies inside workspace.
I tried the other one some time ago and didn't like it. It was to buggy so I gave up quickly.
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