Maven/Gradle working overlay example with eclipse

Question

I have an EAR project which should contain one or more skinny WARs. I already tried everything to get that project working with eclipse but just couldn't make eclipse do the same as the tools(maven and gradle) do when I run them from the command line.

Are there no working examples I could use to get my projects working with eclipse? Please help me, I alread ask myself if anyone is really using these tools like I want them to for such kind of projects.

Answer 1

In my last project experience I have problem with supporting the maven with Eclipse. Because of problem in Eclipse m2 plugin.

So the best solution for me was build an ear from the command line by some shell scripts for example. To open project in IDE I used maven eclipse plugin, thus I generated eclipse workspace by maven.

Using Eclipse External Tools you can run shell script to build/or run your EE application from the command line pretty convenient.

The same applies to the gradle, but looks like Eclipse Gradle plugin is more stable, and now I use plugin in my Gradle project.

If it will be useful for you, you can review github test project to illustrate how to make maven multymodule war project. Also you can find short explanation how to generate eclipse workspace for this project. After workspace generated you can import as Existing Project into your workspace.