[m2e-users] A design dilemma for supporting parallel maven/eclipse plugi

[Benson Margulies <bimargulies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Consider checkstyle, pmd, and findbugs.

In each case, the perhaps goal is to arrange for the native eclipse
plugin, with all it's nice wiring to the eclipse UI, to operate with
the same config as the maven plugin.

On the other hand, it seems about as dumb as you can get to run each
of these things *twice*: once as part of the maven build, and once
from their eclipse builds.

Would it make sense to make the m2e support for these force 'skip'
flags, or otherwise interact with the maven execution system, to
disable the maven plugins themselves?

Is there, in fact, an API to call from the m2e environment that could
turn off an execution?