No Maven menu items in Eclipse Indigo SR2 EE even after m2e + DWM install

Question

I\'ve installed Eclipse Indigo SR2 EE:

Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Service Release 2 
Build id: 20120216-1857

and e

Answer 1

I managed to install it by following the steps described at:

1. http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/download/

2. http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=//org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm

Answer 2

I worked around this issue by downloading and installing "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" (ie: not the EE package). Unlike the EE version of Eclipse, the basic Java version comes with m2e built-in, and it worked out of the box. The preferences entry was there, the import items were present in the menus, etc.

I then just installed the "Eclipse Java EE Developer tools" from "Help -> Install new software...". I don't know if it's a complete EE package, but the EE perspective and the tools I need are there. You can compare the Eclipse EE package list to the above list for the plain Java version, showing that the EE package has the following additional feature packages:

• org.eclipse.datatools (Data Tools)
• org.eclipse.jpt (Java Persistence Tools)
• org.eclipse.jsf (JavaServer faces)
• org.eclipse.jst (? Seems to be parts from Web Tools Platform and parts from core ?)
• org.eclipse.pde (Plugin development environment)
• org.eclipse.rse (Remote System Explorer)
• org.eclipse.tm (Target Management Terminal)
• org.eclipse.wst (XSL support, by the looks)