2010/12/14 Marshall Schor <[email protected]> > . > > So in this way you don't have the whole "vertical" structure in one > project > > (when enabling nested modules) and can work on modules separately. > > That's what I'd like to do. What I was hoping was to be able to "hide" the > folders in the parent pom project. There was a Jira for this > https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-1317 which identified the > issue as > > > If you import a nested project structure into M2E you will be able to see > child > projects inside of parent projects. This is very confusing (see screnshot). >
understood, I agree that is confusing indeed > > > > Lately I've been working with IntelliJ Idea for a while and I find it > quite > > better in support to multi module Maven projects; however we'd need > someone > > working on IntelliJ Idea UIMA plugins to provide a better experience > there > > too. > > Just curious - is there m2eclipse - like support for IntelliJ ? That is, > something that attempts to merge the incremental build processes the IDE > uses, > with the build life-cycle processes that Maven provides, so you get the > same > build results? in IntelliJ you don't need an external plugin since the Maven support is bundled and you only need to set the Maven home directory in preferences; once you have created/imported the Maven project you can actually execute lifecycle phases from IDE. You can see a screenshot at [1] (file is to be deleted in short time). Cheers, Tommaso [1] : http://people.apache.org/~tommaso/intellij.png
