Missing the ‘maven package’ menu entry in eclipse

Question

I'm using Eclipse 3.7 with m2eclipse. Previously I know there was a menu entry ‘maven package’ but since I reinstalled Ubuntu there is no entry and I have to ‘maven install’ to do the same.

Now I'm wondering if it is possible to get the ‘maven package’ back so I could test something without installing it and allow other projects to use the test version as dependency.

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '12 at 22:45

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Just use Maven Build... and type package in the goal field.

answered Feb 23 '12 at 22:45

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And how could I add this to the menu without define this for each project? – xZise Feb 24 '12 at 20:38
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For all reading this: the solution of @akcasoy actually gives a fuller answer. – checklist May 25 '15 at 13:23
this is what I was looking for – oliver Dec 12 '17 at 03:20

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '13 at 19:25

I also recently wanted to have this option with the new version of m2eclipse. The best solution i could find is, to create a configuration with the goal package, and as base directory give a variable name ${selected_resource_loc}. Still you have to go to run configurations page, but at least you don't have to define a new configuration for each project, but use the predefined one.

right-click project
run as
run configurations..
double click maven build (to create a new configuration)
give a name for configuration e.g. package
click variables
select "selected_resource_loc" and click ok
write your goal e.g. "package" or "clean package"
run

The next time when you want to package another project, you can use this configuration again:

right-click project
run as
run configurations..
select your maven configuration
run

At least you will not have to create a new configuration each time you want to package, as with maven build...

I'm not sure what the outcome of the step 'select "selected_resource_loc"' should have been. I had 'base directory' pre-filled with my project path. Just keeping that and doin the rest of the steps here worked for me. — cellepo, Feb 13 '16 at 23:48

Missing the ‘maven package’ menu entry in eclipse

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