We are pleased to announce the Maven Eclipse Plugin 1.9 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/eclipse/

A plugin to generate various files for the Eclipse IDE and ease the use of 
Maven within that environment. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o add property maven.eclipse.addResources=false to prevent the build 
  resources from breaking old Eclipse builds. 
o Allow includes/excludes in build resources to be used in the classpath 
  generation. 
o Support for Eclipse-Plugin maven projects (or kind="con" classpath). Fixes 
  MPECLIPSE-50. Thanks to Simon Ringuette. 

  Fixed bugs:

o Add property maven.eclipse.resources.addtoclasspathto control whether to 
  add pom.resources etc or not. Provide backwards compatiblity. Fixes 
  MPECLIPSE-53. 
o Set proper cactus.src.dir Fixes MPECLIPSE-52. 
o Fixed duplicated source entry issue. Fixes MPECLIPSE-51. 
o duplicate build path added if resouce directory is the same as java source 
  dir. Fixes MPECLIPSE-49. Thanks to Fabrizio Giustina. 
o Simple implementation of handling source artifacts. Fixes MPECLIPSE-48. 
  Thanks to Fabrizio Giustina. 
o Add resources directories and test resources directories to .classpath. 
  Fixes MPECLIPSE-47. 
o Overriden jar that resides outside maven repo doesn't get resolved 
  properly. Fixes MPECLIPSE-46. Thanks to Archimedes Trajano. 
o Jar overrides are now properly supported. Fixes MPECLIPSE-38.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-eclipse-plugin
  -Dversion=1.9

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin-1.9.jar


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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Eclipse Plugin
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPECLIPSE


Have fun!
-The Maven Eclipse Plugin development team