Oh no--I wasn't suggesting it as an alternative, but just to document it as a warning/advisement, and just wanted to make sure I was reasonably accurate in my assessment.
Thanks, Glen Benson Margulies-4 wrote: > > I have no trouble with IDE builds, debugging, etc when I run our > existing procedure and importing the resulting projects into eclipse. > > Some time ago I tried the maven plugin for Eclipse and got some pretty > sorry results (not with CXF). By all means document it as an > alternative, but not to replace. > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Glen Mazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, I would like to update our Eclipse setup page[1] with additional >> info. I >> noticed that instead of using mvn eclipse:eclipse command (or the >> -Psetup.eclipse parameter described on that page), there is an Eclipse >> menu >> File -> Import -> General -> Maven Projects option (at least for Eclipse >> IDEs that have the Maven plugin installed), which works just by choosing >> the >> root directory of the CXF download. >> >> As I can see, the advantage of importing CXF as standard Eclipse projects >> (i.e., mvn eclipse:eclipse) over importing as a Maven project is that >> IDE-builds, debugging and code-completion, etc. is not as good or even >> available with the Maven project import option. Also, the Eclipse's >> Maven >> plugin apparently does not allow you to set MAVEN_OPTS parameters (it >> seems >> to ignore the already set environment variable for it), causing >> out-of-memory errors compared to running Maven from the command line. Am >> I >> largely correct here? >> >> Thanks, >> Glen >> >> [1] http://cxf.apache.org/setting-up-eclipse.html >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Using-the-Eclipse-Maven-plugin-for-CXF-tp20832510p20832510.html >> Sent from the cxf-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-the-Eclipse-Maven-plugin-for-CXF-tp20832510p20833204.html Sent from the cxf-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
