Sonatype to Lead New Eclipse Project to Integrate Maven into
Eclipse
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 30
/PRNewswire/ -- Sonatype, the leader in Java development
infrastructure, today announced that they will contribute their
m2eclipse project, an Eclipse plug-in that tightly integrates Maven
and Eclipse, to the Eclipse Foundation and lead a new Eclipse
Technology Project. The existing project will serve as the starting
point for the Eclipse m2eclipse project. The move shows Sonatype's
strong commitment to open source and to the integration of Eclipse and
Maven, combining the world's most popular IDE with the most popular
Java build and release framework and repository.
Java developers have downloaded more than 2 million copies of Maven to
manage their build process. The Maven central repository is one of the
most active open source repositories in the world with more 100
million Java artifacts downloaded a month.
"The open source community now provides developers with an integrated
Java development framework that combines the most popular IDE, the
most popular build and release framework, and the largest repository
of Java software," said Jason van Zyl, creator of the Maven Central
Repository and founder of Sonatype. "Since m2eclipse is the de facto
standard for Maven and Eclipse integration, Sonatype is contributing
all the code to the open source community to make both Maven and
Eclipse more valuable to developers."
"Maven and Eclipse are two extremely popular open source tools that
improve efficiency for developers," said Dan Diephouse, software
architect at MuleSource and creator of XFire. "Open source software
developers are thrilled about Sonatype's work to integrate the Maven
build framework, the Eclipse IDE, and the Maven central
repository."
Created by Sonatype, m2eclipse (also known as m2e) gives developers
the ability to launch Maven builds and resolve Maven dependencies from
inside Eclipse. Additionally, Maven's popular method of dependency
management, enabled by their use of a project-object model (POM) for
all artifacts, will be brought to the Eclipse platform. m2eclipse will
use Eclipse extensibility mechanisms to extend Maven tools, insuring
that all Java software in the Maven central repository or internal
enterprise repositories can be easily accessed from within
Eclipse.
"This is a great addition to the Eclipse community, we feel that
easing the barriers between Maven and Eclipse will be an important
integration point," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the
Eclipse Foundation. "We welcome Sonatype's contribution of m2eclipse
to the Eclipse community."
The m2eclipse project is distributed under the Eclipse Public License
(EPL), and will be available from Eclipse by August 2008. The plug-in,
as well as additional information on m2eclipse, is currently available
at http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/
About Sonatype
The leader in Java development infrastructure, Sonatype delivers
enterprise-class software, support and services that reduce
development time and complexity, encourage developer collaboration,
and significantly cut operating costs for organizations of any
size. Sonatype incorporates Java standards to set community-wide best
practices and enable cross-vendor integration. Headquartered in Palo
Alto, Calif., Sonatype was founded in 2007 and is privately held. For
more information, please visit http://www.sonatype.com.
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