build a new Project in Eclipse

[al_lv]

Hey,

I have a question to the way, that was presented in Webinar on 02. Dez to build a Project in Eclipse.
After we made the process model in Activiti modeler, we exported it in cycle as a maven project, that we then imported into eclipse as maven-project.
The next step was to complete the code and then, before junit test,  maven install task was executed.
What happend on this step?
What is the role of maven?
Is it optional step for testing or i need it for deployment with ant also?

Thanks

Alexej

[bernd_ruecker]

Hi Alexei.

Maven just builds the project. We needed that because of a flaw in m2eclipse (the Maven integration into Eclipse) I often have: the resources aren't correctly copied to the build folder by eclipse. So we started the Maven build which does that correctly always… But that is standard Maven, nothing very special about Activiti.

If I remember it right, our current Ant tasks includes Maven automatically to do the build before deploying.

Cheers
Bernd