Re: [m2e-dev] Wish to contribute an incubating bundle for easier import

[Fred Bricon <fbricon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Something tells me the deep level hierarchy with dummy intermediary poms in use in *some* PDE projects is not representative of the vast majority of Maven use cases.

Maybe the problem is the universal importer being to eager. It should allow users to choose which folders to imports as projects.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/23/2015 02:23 PM, Fred Bricon wrote:

Because the Maven builder is attached to them and because Maven projects use pom inheritance, any change to the parent pom can be automatically detected and applied to its modules.

There can be resource listener at other locations than under project root.

Take this as an example : http://screencast.com/t/ls1In7Uq

changing the compiler version at the parent level triggers classpath update to its java modules. Works the same for dependency management. That couldn't happen if the parent pom was not imported as a project.

For this use-case, it seems like you have a single level of hierarchy, but when you have 2 levels of hierarchy (such as typical Eclipse PDE projects that have bundles/ features/ and so on), I don't see any value for the user to have the intermediary folders shown as projects in IDE.
As a Maven/PDE user, I typically want my parent project as root of the Project Explorer, and my modules loaded as projects to get completion/validation/build. Intermediary folders are just there for structuring purpose and I put a pom in them because it's the convention. It doesn't mean I'll need them to be editable projects in my IDE.

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