With the latest version of the eclipse maven plugin, you can import a
pom directly into eclipse without the command line step.
If you then just close the eclipse project your not using, the
dependencies will automatically change from the eclipse project to the
last published version in your
Another option is a multiproject layout.
Guess you have the following layout in svn/git:
-- project a
- dependency a
-- dependency a-2
- dependency b
-- project b
depdendency c
If you checkout project a you receive the dependencies and can right
click on it and import
Why? It is always a good question to start with.
What Maven Repo are you using?
There is usually no need to have a project open in Eclipse to use the
project's output (jar) in another project.
Eclipse and Maven will automatically get the imported dependencies from
any artifact that you declare
