I see I jumped the gun a little. Let me concentrate on just getting a simple
maven project to work and then come back to importing it into eclipse.
I have a simple minimal hello world! application generated by maven
genapp version 1.1. It works.
As per
How do you *run* your program? Maven doesn't control your program
execution, just the creation of the binaries (like 'make').
If you run from the commandline, make sure you specify the appropriate
classpath. If you run from inside an IDE, make sure it is configured
to add the classpath.
P.S.
