[m2e-dev] ability to automatically activate checkstyle

[Jörg Hohwiller <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear m2e developers,

First of all thanks for m2e. Since ~1.0 release it became stable and is 
matured gaining productivity.
However, good old mvn eclipse:eclipse made it extremly easy to customize 
the settings and add extra natures or builders. E.g. to activate eclipse 
you could do this:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/examples/configure-checkstyle.html

However with m2e this is a big problem. I found and tested this project:
https://code.google.com/p/m2e-extensions/
However it seems to be dead and does not work with recent versions of 
Eclipse and m2e if it ever worked at all. See also:
https://code.google.com/p/m2e-extensions/wiki/Checkstyle

Next I tried this one:
https://github.com/m2e-code-quality/m2e-code-quality
It installs properly but seems to do nothing. There are no working 
step-by-step instructions that worked for me...

General infos how it could practically work are described here:
https://docs.sonatype.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Customizable+build+lifecycle+mapping+for+m2e+extensions+developers

I also followed this instructions and tried to create my own eclipse 
plugin for this but had no luck either.

On this mailing list the topic has already been discussed several times 
without a solution.
You can also google for this problem and will find tons of hits. It is 
not only about checkstyle but also about findbugs and other things.

Are there any plans to support this in the future? Why not creating a 
solution as simple as with maven-eclipse-plugin where you can define 
extra builders and natures in the plugin config inside your POM?
Any other ideas?

Thanks a lot
  Jörg

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