How to rename a maven project

[siddharth das]

Hi,

I have a maven project which I import in Eclipse. I want to rename the project.Could you please tell me what are the steps.

Thanks,
Sidharth

[Joe San]

Maven projects are defined based on three facets which are:

1. groupId
2. artifactId
3. version

You can have any name to your project just by changing it on your folder structure, though I'm not sure if Eclipse offers you the possibility to change the name of your project!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

It's a two step procedure:

1) Rename the project in Eclipse (F2 or Refactor -> Rename)
2) Update the artifactId in your pom.xml

[Tim Cooke]

For completeness, here's the two step procedure for doing it manually.

1) Rename the module directory
2) Rename the artifactId in your pom.xml

So for a multi-module project, the directory structure starts out like this:

proj |- pom.xml |- module1/ | `- pom.xml `- module2/ `- pom.xml
and ends up like this
proj |- pom.xml |- module1-renamed/ | `- pom.xml `- module2/ `- pom.xml
Then your pom.xml contents change from
<groupId>com.coderanch</groupId> <artifactId>module1</artifactId>
to
<groupId>com.coderanch</groupId> <artifactId>module1-renamed</artifactId>