Eclipse plugin external-tools goal doesn't work with eclipse 2.1

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  • Resolution: Fixed
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I'm running Maven with Eclipse and found the eclipse:external-tools goal in maven's eclipse plugin that is supposed to automatically create external tool entries in eclipse for maven. When properly set up and executed, an externaltools.xml is placed in eclipse's workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.ui.externaltools directory but this doesn't seem to be enough for eclipse. I suspect that this used to work in an earlier version of eclipse, but that the interface has since changed and this particular goal hasn't been updated to reflect the changes made in eclipse.

I've browsed the mailing list archive to no avail trying to figure this out. Any suggestions? Is this supposed to work in the current eclipse release? (I'm running Eclipse 2.1.0).

Thanks!

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Thomas Burns
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dion gillard added a comment -

It appears that eclipse 2.1 stores this information differently:
it looks like it goes in ${maven.eclipse.workspace}\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches\${name}.launch
where name is the name of the tool, e.g. maven clean.

Here's a sample file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<launchConfiguration type="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ProgramLaunchConfigurationType">
<stringAttribute
key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_TOOL_ARGUMENTS" value="-e -p ${resource_loc} clean"/>
<stringAttribute
key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_REFRESH_SCOPE" value="${project}"/>
<listAttribute key="org.eclipse.debug.ui.favoriteGroups">
<listEntry value="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.launchGroup"/>
</listAttribute>
<stringAttribute
key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_WORKING_DIRECTORY" value="${container_loc}"/>
<stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_LOCATION" value="c:\Program Files\maven\bin\maven.bat"/>
</launchConfiguration>

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dion gillard added a comment - It appears that eclipse 2.1 stores this information differently: it looks like it goes in ${maven.eclipse.workspace}\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches\${name}.launch where name is the name of the tool, e.g. maven clean. Here's a sample file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <launchConfiguration type="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ProgramLaunchConfigurationType"> <stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_TOOL_ARGUMENTS" value="-e -p ${resource_loc} clean"/> <stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_REFRESH_SCOPE" value="${project}"/> <listAttribute key="org.eclipse.debug.ui.favoriteGroups"> <listEntry value="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.launchGroup"/> </listAttribute> <stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_WORKING_DIRECTORY" value="${container_loc}"/> <stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_LOCATION" value="c:\Program Files\maven\bin\maven.bat"/> </launchConfiguration>
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dion gillard added a comment -

We'll need something like this for each goal we want added to the external tools entry

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dion gillard added a comment - We'll need something like this for each goal we want added to the external tools entry
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dion gillard added a comment -

Added eclipse:external-tools-21 goal

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dion gillard added a comment - Added eclipse:external-tools-21 goal

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