Maven + Eclipse + Spring

Today i show how you can easily develop a Mavenproject with Spring-Beans
in your Eclipse-IDE. You have to add a new plugin to your pom’s
plugins-section:

...

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.5.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <projectNameTemplate>[artifactId]</projectNameTemplate>
          <downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
          <downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
          <wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
          <wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
          <wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
          <manifest>${basedir}/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifest>
          <additionalProjectnatures>
            <projectnature>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springnature</projectnature>
          </additionalProjectnatures>
          <additionalBuildcommands>
            <buildcommand>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springbuilder</buildcommand>
          </additionalBuildcommands>
          <additionalConfig>
            <file>
              <name>.springBeans</name>
              <content>
                <![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beansProjectDescription>
  <configExtensions>
    <configExtension>xml</configExtension>
  </configExtensions>
  <configs>
    <config>src/main/resource/services.xml</config>
    <config>src/main/resource/datasource.xml</config>
  </configs>
  <configSets>
    <configSet>
      <name>core</name>
      <allowBeanDefinitionOverriding>true</allowBeanDefinitionOverriding>
      <incomplete>false</incomplete>
      <configs>
       <config>src/main/resource/services.xml</config>
       <config>src/main/resource/datasource.xml</config>
      </configs>
    </configSet>
  </configSets>
</beansProjectDescription>]]>
              </content>
            </file>
            <file>
              <name>.settings/org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.prefs</name>
              <content>
                <![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
eclipse.preferences.version=1
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.builders.enable.aopreferencemodelbuilder=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.enable.project.preferences=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanAlias-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanClass-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanConstructorArgument-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanDefinition-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanDefinitionHolder-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanFactory-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanInitDestroyMethod-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanProperty-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beanReference-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.methodOverride-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.parsingProblems-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.requiredProperty-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.core.beansvalidator=true
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.action-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.actionstate-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.attribute-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.attributemapper-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.beanaction-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.evaluationaction-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.evaluationresult-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.exceptionhandler-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.import-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.inputattribute-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.mapping-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.outputattribute-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.set-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.state-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.subflowstate-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.transition-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.variable-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.validator.rule.enable.org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validation.webflowstate-org.springframework.ide.eclipse.webflow.core.validator=false
]]>
              </content>
            </file>
          </additionalConfig>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
...

Then you can run mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse (eclipse:clean is not required). The eclipse-plugin will create/change the .springBean and the .settings/org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.prefs. Then you can refresh the eclipse-project (F5) from now the project contains a Spring-Builder which will handle the defined spring-configuration-files services.xml and datasource.xml. If you have more Springfiles you have to change the plugin-configuration.