Re: [m2e-users] Import Existing Support with Parent pom.xml in Project R

[Alejandro Calbazana <acalbazana@xxxxxxxxx>]

My project structure is as follows:

pom.xml (parent)
core\
  pom.xml
wscli\
  pom.xml
webapp\
  pom.xml

Now...  I do not have a top level project that contains the parent
pom.xml.  I am not sure that this makes a difference.  The error
message that I get is - "Can not import project {0} from existing
workspace."  I was able to get this working by putting my workspace in
a different directory than my project (typically, I have one workspace
per group of projects and they all live along side each other).  I
saw, from checking some of the eclipse plugin development docs, that
this isnt recommended with maven projects within eclipse.  I didn't
see any such restriction on the m2eclipse  site though.

Thanks,

Alejandro

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Asaf Mesika <asaf.mesika@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I'm using a parent project with multi-modules without any issue (Eclipse 3.5, 3.6), and M2Eclipse 0.12.
> Also, Using git.
>
> The project is as follows:
>
> foo-parent\
>      pom.xml
>      foo-core\
>            pom.xml
>      foo-commons\
>            pom.xml
>      foo-webapp\
>            pom.xml
>
> Each foo-X directory is a git repository. We're currently composing this by hand (manually checking it out), but we plan to do this a custom made Maven plugin like the guys in Atlassian wrote.
>
> When I import, I choose "foo-parent" directory and it automatically shows all 4 projects.
>
> Can you describe you problem in more detail?
>
>
> On 29/12/2010, at 21:03, Alejandro Calbazana wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to get some clarity around importing existing maven projects
>> into eclipse.  I am not able to successfully import projects that have
>> a parent pom.xml at the project root dir.  I am able to import the
>> modules successfully, but the parent pom.xml gets left behind.  This
>> is unfortunate as I am not sure if the projects are referencing the
>> parent pom.  While importing from a SCM, I notice that a parent
>> project is created behind the scenes for projects that have a pom.xml
>> at the root.  What are my options for getting my parent pom.xml to
>> import using the import existing functionality?
>>
>> The motivtion for this is to use git.  I do not see any git support
>> for m2eclipse, so I am not sure where to go from here.  Additionally,
>> I would like to not have to modify my project structure.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alejandro
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