[news.eclipse.technology.m2e] Re: multiple maven modules in one eclipse

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Sorokin wrote:
> For this use case there is no problem with maven execution from the 
> command line: folders can be deleted and recreated again and later 
> imported (refreshed) by Eclipse. The problems started when maven 
> builds are initiated by m2eclipse Eclipse plugin: when target folder 
> is cleaned the required sources need to be generated again, even if 
> there was no changes to the underlying definitions (UML model, WSDL 
> descriptions, etc.) AS one of possible solutions I can see the 
> modification of the execution of the clean goal: when in Eclipse only 
> sources that are kept in the /src folder need to be cleaned from the 
> /target. This will keep generated code within /target untouched and 
> there will be no need to execute again the code generation phase.
 Nick, can you please elaborate how this scenario is different from, 
say, "Project / Clean..." action, which cleans all the classes and 
resources, regardless if they had changed or not and basically does the 
full build.

 regards,
 Eugene