title: How to integrate maven the right way into Eclipse and into the software development process?
body: <p>I am new to maven. The main feature I benefit from, yet, is the automatic dependency management. The standardized directory structure seems also to be nice, but Eclipse has a standard directory structure, too. The directory structure is now independent from Eclipse, but now it is dependent from maven. OK, I see, both programs seem to be quite flexible at this point.</p>
  
  <p>I am not quite sure, if maven is more dedicated to servers or to client systems, e.g. there is a feature / plugin to generate a project website. Doesn't this make most sense on a server system? </p>
  
  <p>How to integrate maven with a version control system (VCS), e.g. SVN? I think of a system where there is a repository and always up-to-date website with download section for development artifacts.</p>
  
  <p>How to integrate maven with Eclipse? I'm now using m2eclipse with WTP integration. Its ok, but it has some behaviors that I don't like, e.g.:</p>
  
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  <li>When I generate new Java projects the JRE version is set to 1.4 . I have to reset it to 1.6 / workspace default manually.</li>
  <li>Facets configuration is not stable. Some configurations have to be done manually and in a specific order.</li>
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  <p>Maybe I can fix them if I read more about it. And I have a more or less serious problem with its WTP extension. I think its important to say, that the WTP extension is <a href="http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/wtp-projects-dependencies-don-t-show-up-in-embedded-tomcat-WEB-INF-lib-directory-tp139868p139872.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">not officially supported</a> and may not have production quality.</p>
  
  <p>I know there is another plugin which integrates maven into Eclipse. I did not try it, yet. Is it better?</p>
  
  <p>Also I think, that maven may be useful for much more areas. For example the directory structure could be extended to hold e.g. requirements, specification and modeling artifacts. I think that would only work, if it would be standardized. Revision control for all documents would be nice, too.</p>
  
  <p>So many thing, that could be integrated to support the complete software development prosess. Maybe its unrealistic, to get all of these features. For now the Eclipse integration with WTP and VCS integration have the highest priority for me.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.</p>