5 things you can do with Maven in Eclipse other IDEs don't want you to know
summary
Demonstrates converting a legacy Eclipse web app to Maven using the project conversion wizard that maps web libs to Maven dependencies and preserves existing folders; shows m2e’s pom.xml content assist and plugin-configuration autocomplete; explains workspace and external war overlays that copy shared CSS/assets into the deployed WAR on-the-fly; describes m2e profile management with a GUI to enable profiles and auto-activation via the m2e.version property; claims dynamic resource filtering that injects artifactId/version into web files during incremental deploys.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:26convert a legacy web application
- 12:11open the war plugin configuration
- 18:51move on to war overlays
- 19:42add a dependency to these shared resources
- 21:23adding in dependency to your pom xml
- 24:36add my own web resources
- 26:37open the maven profile selection
- 27:49declare an activation policy








