Maven can be run directly from the contextual menu of any IContainer (Screenshot 1) or
any project.xml file. When triggered a dialog pops up to let the user choose goals and options.
The wizard dialog (Screenshot 2) allows you to
pick options that are relevant in the context of the IDE (that
means for instance that -b, -h,
-p options, among others, are not
accessible). System properties can be specified
using the 'Add' button.
The Text widget at the bottom of the wizard page is writable and goals to
run are to be passed in there. Alternatively The 'Choose'
button can be used to graphically pick goals.
Mevenide provides an interface to graphically choose
the goals to be run (Screenshot 3). Once chosen, they can be ordered
by clicking the Goals Order button.
If basedir can be resolved (which obviously is the case when
the wizard is triggered from contextual menus), then the dialog displays both
custom and global defined goals.
Mevenide launcher is integrated with the Eclipse External Tools and
the "Run As> Maven Project" command silently invokes
the default Maven goals that have been specified in the
Run preferences page in the context of the selected Project.
