I do happen to use Eclipse, and all I've installed is the m2e plugin from Help menu. Is this what you are talking about?
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > The easy way to figure out what is happening is to use Eclipse/STS as your > IDE and then you have nice gui tools that will tell you where your sources > are supposed to be. > It is free and comes ready to build with maven. > It has a nice editor for pom files and a window that shows you what you > effective POM is and another that shows you your whole maven dependency tree > with nice little notes about version conflicts and which one Maven has > selected for your pleasure. > > Ron > > > On 24/10/2013 4:23 PM, Laird Nelson wrote: >> >> mvn help:effective-pom will spit out the pom made up of the defaults plus >> anything you've overridden or added. Stand back; it's huge. >> >> Best, >> Laird >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Maven has a 'convention over configuration' philosophy, which means that >>> the pom.xml doesn't need to specify paths that are in the conventional >>> places. So unless otherwise configured, it will look in src/main/java >>> for >>> all of it's (non-test) source code. You should be able to find the >>> conventions listed on the maven site, or the site for a particular >>> plug-in. >>> >>> I find this very helpful in creating minimalist pom.xml files for the >>> standard 'make me a jar, test, document, and put it some where it can be >>> found' process. But it can be a pain if you don't know where the >>> conventional places are, and any deviation often results in a great >>> multitude of google searches to find the man behind the curtain. >>> >>> --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Trying to understand how >>> maven finds source >>> From: "Robert Dailey" <[email protected]> >>> Date: 10/24/13 1:04 pm >>> To: "Maven" <[email protected]> >>> >>> Hey everyone, >>> >>> I'm trying to understand something basic, I haven't been able to find >>> the answer through Google surprisingly (maybe my searching abilities >>> suck today). How is it that Maven is able to find source code to >>> compile? What I would expect is the pom.xml to refer to some *.java >>> path (something like <source>src/main/java/*</source>), but I don't >>> see anything like that. >>> >>> How does maven know what java source code to compile? Thanks in >>> advance for any help. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> > > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
