Hello,

We've studied this problem quite deeply.

The "Maven way" of doing this is to manage your dependencies in your pom.xml,
and to use the OSGI plugin for Maven to create (or rather complement) a 
manifest files
http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/osgi-plugin-for-maven-2.html
(Checking this link, it seems this plugin is going to be rewritten... Oh well!) 
This has been described here: 
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Maven+and+Eclipse

Another approach is to do the opposite: generate/complement the pom from the 
Eclipse project.
We did not try this, but you might have a look at the MakeArtifactsMojo of
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-eclipse-plugin
since it is able to generate a pom.xml from Eclipse plugins packaged as jar 
files 

In a not-too-distant future, the two communities are hopefully going to work 
together.
On the Eclipse side, the Buckminster project should allow reading the pom from 
Eclipse 
and compute its dependencies from it
And I heard that Maven 2.1 would also be able to do compute its dependencies 
externally,
but that was a while ago.

On our side, for several reasons, some of them non technical, we finally decided
not to migrate  our Eclipse plugins and keep on building them using PDEBuild,
which we call from Maven through the antrun plugin.

Good luck!

Samuel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Whitlock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: mardi 13 février 2007 04:34
> To: Maven Users
> Subject: Eclipse Development with Maven
> 
> Hi All,
>     I have googled the terms above and have come up with marginal results.
> I would like to ask on the mailing lists if it is possible to build/test
> Eclipse plugins with Maven.  If so, is there any good documentation on this?
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Jeremy



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