MvnIndex.org - Eclipse plugin



Introduction

MvnIndex Eclipse plugin's only goal is to simplify POM dependencies editing. It does not want to compete with m2eclipse plugin or any other existing plugin.

Compatibility

The plugin was tested in Eclipse 3.2 and 3.3 under Windows XP and Linux. It depends on the XML editor from WST therefore it requires WST to be installed.

Installation

  1. In Eclipse click on menu Help -> Software updates -> Find and install.

  2. Select "Search new features to install" and press "Next"

  3. Click on "New Remote Site..." and fill in MvnIndex as name and http://mvnindex.org/eclipse-site/ as the URL.

    New remote site

  4. Confirm the dialog, click on "Finish" and finish the installation process.

Usage

  1. In the groupId tag write part of groupId name and press "Ctrl+Space". All matching groupId names will be shown.

    GroupId completition

  2. In the artifactId tag all artifacts from given groupId are shown.

    ArtifactId completition

  3. In the version tag all matching versions for given artifact are shown.

    Version completition

Preferences

Preferences

On MvnIndex preference page you can configure sites where the updates are downloaded from. In the text area you can add more repositories divided by new-line character. Every record has to be in format id:URL, where id is id of the repository (arbitrary) and URL is address of the index file.

For more information about index file generating see indexer pages.