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I have been using The Maven Integration for Eclipse version 0.0.10 for some time now and thought it would be useful to share my experiences with it.

In short, version 0.0.10 works quite good for me. Version 0.0.9 had some annoying bugs that made the plugin almost unusable. But these are all solved (or improved) in version 0.0.10 and I am a happy user now.

So if you didn’t like the Maven Integration for Eclipse and tried version 0.0.9 or below, you could give 0.0.10 a try. You probably will like that version a lot better.

The bugs in 0.0.9 that were keeping me from happiness were:

• “Unable to index” error - This bug made me have to restart Eclipse just about every time I changed something in the pom.xml. Quite a relief that this bug is fixed now.
• Issues with hierarchical projects - I have a few hierarchical projects and these did not work because of these bugs. In version 0.0.10 I can use hierarchical projects without a problem.
• Issue searching libraries - Searching libraries was confusing the hell out of me in 0.0.9. It still does not work perfectly, but it is a lot better now. See details in the bugreport for the remaining issue.
• An issue related to dependency management. I couldn’t match this with a bug in the release notes, but this issue is also solved now. This issue related to dependency management: When a project A used another project B then only libraries specified in project B were picked up in project A. So I had to specify all libraries in project B.

So especially if you recognize one or more of these bugs, I recommend you to upgrade to version 0.0.10 immediately.

See the release notes for a more complete list of changes.

Thanks to the development team (Eugene Kuleshov and Jason van Zyl) for this major quality improvement!