Development

Eclipse, Maven, Spring and Hibernate

Intro

Some notes about using Maven with Eclipse. Having recently (re)discovered Maven I decided to try using Maven to manage and build a project I was planning to construct using Java (specifically with Spring and Hibernate).

This page will consist of a series of notes to help me remember how I did something in 6 months time....! Hopefully someone else may find it useful as the article grows.

Eclipse and Maven

Maven is a tool that I plan to use to manage the build process of the project and to manage the Java dependencies of the project. It seems m2eclipse provides a handy plugin to use Maven with Eclipse, so that's what I'll try.

Maven plugin is installed using the update site: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e via the hand Eclipse Using the Help->install new software feature.

Eclipse and Spring

Spring also has a handy plugin for use in Eclipse. I installed the plugin using the Fedora package manager as it's readily available through the repositories. Here is another Spring plugin, not sure if it's the same one though! http://springide.org/updatesite

Java

I'll be using a Java 5 compliant JDK. I forget which but certainly 5+ to allow use of generics, so 1.5 or 1.6.