[m2e-dev] Maven Updates

[<paul.warren@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

 

Wondering if you might be able to answer this for me. 

 

We are building an IDE for our platform on top of eclipse and m2e.

 

When a user of our IDE creates an application project, that project’s pom.xml specifies a snapshot update policy of “always”.

 

Now from the maven documentation I believe this means maven will check for newer snapshots every time it is started.

 

What I am trying to figure out is when does m2e “start” maven.  Is it just for Run As/Debug As invocations?  Does it include maven incremental builder invocations?  Does m2e force a check during start-up of eclipse/m2e plugins themselves?

 

Thanks in advance

_Paul