[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-6214) Support project example with no Eclipse metadata, only pom.xml, in zip

[Snjezana Peco (JIRA)]

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Snjezana Peco commented on JBIDE-6214:
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> Snjezana, the use case is that those doing the examples would want to use some automated way of generating .project/.classpath files and the 
> closest tool for that is mvn eclipse:eclipse but that is not really what we would like for Maven projects since m2eclipse would/should be the one
> generating the proper metadata.

maven-eclipse-plugin is deprecated. You can import a maven project using Import>Maven>Existing Maven Projects

> Can we autodetect how the import should be done for a project (i.e. if .project > import Eclipse project, if no .project and pom.xml import Maven 
> Project, etc.) and possibly have a flag to control this in the project example xml ?

We can, but in that case, project examples would depend on m2eclipse.

> Still without requiring the user to have Maven plugins installed...in that case these non-metadata projects would just be treated as normal eclipse > projects I would expect. 

We couldn't avoid a dependency to m2eclipse if we would like to add this functionality. However, we could easily create a project example based on a maven project:
- import a maven project using Import>Maven>Existing Maven Projects
- archive the project using Export>General>Archive File
- add an entry to the project-examples.xml file

> Support project example with no Eclipse metadata, only pom.xml, in zip
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>                 Key: JBIDE-6214
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-6214
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: project-examples
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0.GA
>            Reporter: Pete Muir
>            Assignee: Snjezana Peco
>             Fix For: 3.2.next
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> If projects want to incorporate producing project examples into their release process, they are likely not to have any valid eclipse metadata available for the example when using Maven.

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