MAVEN is one of the essential skills that developers need to have. When using eclipse for development, we need to install the Maven plugin, there are many tutorials on the web, but some tutorials are too vague to write. Here, I will summarize my own installation method, as far as possible meticulous.
Prerequisite: Install Eclipse and Java, and the Java environment variables are already configured. Continue: Download plugin eclipse-maven3-plugin.zip. Note that the plug-in here is not maven, but a bridge between Eclipse and Maven, and only if the bridge is built, can people on both sides communicate. The focus of this blog is how to install Eclipse-maven3-plugin.zip. Then: You need to open your Eclipse installation directory to create a new two folder, named links and Myplugins, what is the role of these two folders, and so on continue to know. You create a new Maven folder in the Myplugins folder, and then an Eclipse folder in the Maven folder. Next: The download good eclipse-maven3-plugin.zip to decompress, generally you will get two folders, features and plugins. You will then copy the two folders to the Eclipse folder you just created. Next: You want to create a new Maven.link file in the Links folder you created, the file content is written on the path= path, where the path is the custom myplugins in the path of Eclipse, in the form of the following: path=d:\\software\\ Program\\eclipse\\myplugins\\maven. The connector used here is either "\ \" or "/", not "\". Success: When you open your eclipse, see window--"preferenece--" If there is a MAVEN option, such as: if there is a plugin installed successfully. Follow up: You need to download the MAVEN package and then configure it yourself.
Installation of the Eclipse Maven Plugin link method