Installation

Please note that the way how to install plugins differs from each version of Eclipse to the next one. The following description is for Eclipse 3.5.

• In Eclipse, select the menu "Help > Install New Software".
• Enter the following Update Site: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e
• Select the following item to be installed, then do the installation:
  • Maven Integration for Eclipse
    
• After the installation (restart is not yet required), go again to "Install New Software"
• Enter the following Update Sites: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras
• Select the following items to be installed, then do the installation:
  • Maven SCM handler for Subclipse
  • Maven SCM Integration
    
• After the installation, restart Eclipse.

Verification

To make sure the plugin was correctly installed, create a new project using menu "File > New > Project...". There should be a new section "Maven" with several options in it to create Projects based on Maven. Select the option "Checkout Maven Projects from SCM" and click "Next".

If a warning appears "Maven Integration for Eclipse JDK Warning", you have to configure Eclipse to run on a JDK.

If no warning appears, you're installation/configuration should be complete.

Discussion

• Problems with resource loading (reported by Konrad Meister)
  I had problems running my playground tests on my desktop with the following setup:
  - Ubuntu 10.04
  - Eclipse 3.5.2 Build-Id: M20100211-1343
  - m2Eclipse 0.10.0-20100209-0800
  Some tests crashed with the error that a resource file from the matsim project could not be found. There are several bug-reports for m2eclipse concerned with resource loading, including correct builder settings (Maven Builder instead of Java Builder) and "**"-excludes for resource directories. I was not able to recover the problem. The tests run successfully on setups with an older version of m2eclipse (0.9.8). I decided to use this version. It can be installed in Eclipse using a different update site URL than indicated above:
  http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/archives/0.9.8.200905041413/
  which downloads the latest release of m2eclipse 0.9.8. As for the other desktops I tested, my playground runs work again.