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Maven app vs M2E in Eclipse

 
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I have just started to explore Maven for Java and I am using Eclipse.

I understand that Maven can be used as a standalone application (mvn.exe) and also I noticed that there is an Eclipse plug-in called "M2E" that could be used via Eclipse IDE.

Could someone please mention:-

1) If, in practice, Java/Eclipse developers use Maven (mvn.exe) or a M2E? What is the best practice?

2) It seems that using M2E might be slight more convenient that using the command-line mvn.exe. Is there any features/functionality that I lose if I use M2E rather than Mvn.exe?

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I use M2E. The main advantage is that it automatically sets my Eclipse classpath for me so I can develop complete in Eclipse without manual setup.
 
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All of our official builds are done using the mvn command line (no Eclipse involved). But we do have each project configured for Eclipse with m2e; as Jeanne pointed out it makes manual Eclipse project configuration unnecessary because m2e will update the eclipse project config with the info in the pom.xml. Personally, I do my bootleg builds from the command line but most of my colleagues build their bootlegs within Eclipse.
 
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thanks guys. helpful
 
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