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This site provides some custom extensions for the m2e Maven-Eclipse Integration. Currently available:

• JAXB extension

Installation

From your Eclipse menu bar, select Help | Install New Software... and enter this update site URL in the Work with field:

https://github.com/hwellmann/m2eclipse-extras/raw/master/p2/

Select the Omadac m2e Extensions category and the features you require.

Installation via the Discovery process under Window | Preferences | Maven is not yet supported.

JAXB extension usage

The m2e extension for JAXB supports the maven-jaxb2-plugin, which is typically configured in the POM of your project like this:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.7.4</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <goals>
          <goal>generate</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
      <extension>true</extension>
      <schemaIncludes>
        <include>xsd/whizbang.xsd</include>
      </schemaIncludes>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

There are two optional configuration elements schemaDirectory and generateDirectory specifying the directories for your input schemas and for the JAXB classes to be generated by xjc.

The default values are:

• schemaDirectory: src/main/resources
• generateDirectory: target/generated-sources/xjc

The m2e JAXB extension automatically adds the generateDirectory source folder to your Eclipse project. It automatically runs xjc via the maven-jaxb2-plugin whenever you modify any resources in schemaDirectory.

About this repository

This repository is a fork of Sonatype's official m2eclipse-extras repository. The Sonatype sources are still left in trunk for reference and as a basis for further extensions. All custom plugins and features have a name prefix of org.omadac.

The top-level aggregator POM only builds the org.omadac modules.

Author

Harald Wellmann