afaik this is mostly for legacy reasons : maven project type was introduced as a core feature, and is still not strictly isolated in a plugin, so it is packaged as a core plugin and must be released with core
not sure there is work in progress to get it better separated from core and become a "classic" plugin 2012/5/18 Ian Kemp <ian.k...@gmail.com> > Pretty much as the title says. I'm guessing because the "plugin" is > actually a project type?
