Eclipse 3.7 Migration

[Chad La Joie]

Okay, I've been doing some testing with this and everything seems to
be working okay.  So I will be committing the changes related to this
this weekend.  I'll given an update once its done.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 22:02, Chad La Joie <lajoie at itumi.biz> wrote:
> Ian and I were chatting this afternoon and both of us have been playing
> around with Eclipse 3.7 which was released a few weeks ago.  As part of
> the v3.7 release the Maven integration plugin to which we were moving
> (m2eclipse) has been integrated into the Java IDE distributions of
> Eclipse.  However, in the process of moving from m2eclipse version 0.12
> (the latest release available in Eclipse 3.6) to version 1.0 (the one
> that ships with Eclipse 3.7), some breaking changes were made.  You can
> read about them here[1] and here[2].
>
> Aside from the fixups needed for the maven integration plugin everything
> else seems to work okay.  Therefore I'd like to migrate to 3.7.  To do
> this I'd like to do the following:
>
> - Create one super POM that manages all repositories, distribution
> management, plugin management, project metadata (license, organization,
> etc.), the release profile, and *maybe* some common dependencies (e.g.,
> slf4j, logback).
>
> - Have all currently maintained and in development projects use the
> aforementioned super POM
>
> - Move all currently maintained and in development project to use
> m2eclipse v1.0 (this will mean no projects will use IAM any more).
>
> The super POM should help keep a lot of the material in our POMs in
> synch.  Moving everything to a single maven integration plugin will
> simplify our Eclipse installs and project build behavior.
>
> My plan is to make this change over the first weekend in August (i.e.,
> in two weeks).
>
> [1]
> http://blog.subshell.com/devblog/2011/06/changing-from-m2eclipse-to-m2e-eclipse-indigo.html
> [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_plugin_execution_not_covered
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> Chad La Joie
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