[m2e-users] How to override the default settings in m2eclipse?

[Gajo Csaba <csaba.gajo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all!

I'm writing a custom plugin which uses some functionality of m2eclipse. 
I would like the preferences of the m2eclipse plugin to have different 
default values. By this, I mean that currently the user settings file is 
set to ${user.dir}/.m2/settings.xml, and I'd like this to be something 
else, for example /opt/mvn/conf/settings.xml

This needs to be set on the plugin level, not on the workspace level. So 
if someone opens a new workspace, the default values need to be already 
in place. How to do this?

I've looked at the source code of MavenSettingsPreferencesPage, and I 
see that it uses the MavenCli class for retrieving its default values:

userSettingsText.setText(MavenCli.DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE.getAbsolutePath());

The MavenCli class has the values hard-coded like this:

public static final String userHome = System.getProperty( "user.home" );
public static final File userMavenConfigurationHome = new File( 
userHome, ".m2" );
public static final File DEFAULT_USER_SETTINGS_FILE = new File( 
userMavenConfigurationHome, "settings.xml" );

So from this, it seems to me that it's not possible to override these 
values?

Thanks for all replies!

Csaba