Java – continue to develop plug-ins

There is an Eclipse Plug-in managed by maven, which contains the following configurations:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
        <groupId>wonttellya</groupId>
        <artifactId>wonttellya</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <packaging>jar</packaging>
        <dependencies>
            ...
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.10</version>
                <configuration>
                    <pde>true</pde>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

I run on the console

C:\Users\user\git\wonttellya\mvn 
         eclipse:eclipse -Declipse.workspace=C:\Users\user\workspace2
...
Using Eclipse Workspace: C:\Users\user\workspace2    
...
BUILD SUCCESS

If I open eclipse in my workspace, there is no project

Solution

First, you must understand that the purpose of Maven eclipse plugin is to reference its documents:

The goal is not to create an entire project, but to build eclipse to block existing projects

The same is true for PDE support Quoting its documentation：

Therefore, you simply create the correct for an existing project Project and Classpath file Once this configuration is complete and the eclipse: Eclipse target runs, you will need to follow the following steps:

>Open eclipse and import the existing project, go to "File > Import... > existing project into the workspace" > Right click the new project and select Configure > Convert to plug in project Confirm this selection

You can then build eclipse plug - ins directly in the IDE

Please note that I don't recommend this solution. I suggest you use Tycho, which may be that you can improve this plug-in (see this question)