How to tell Maven to include the jar dependency, not the subproject source directory in Eclipse?

Question

I use Apache Maven to manage my Java libs (jar) and some of projects that use the libs. For convinience, I use mvn eclipse:eclipse to generate Eclipse project f

Answer 1

Just try using the type element inside dependency tag and mention source/jar as the type in your pom.xml

 

   namespace.my
   mylib
   [1.0, )
   jar