How to build project from maven pom file

Question

I have a maven pom file for an open source project. This pom file has all the info like what other jars it depends on etc. I installed maven. Created a dir samprj and copied the

Answer 1

If you want to open this within Eclipse, you need to install m2eclipse:

• http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/

and then import the project as a Maven project as described here:

• http://books.sonatype.com/m2eclipse-book/reference/creating-sect-importing-projects.html