-- parse xml to in-memory model Now MavenEmbedder.readProjectWithDependencies() transitively resolve all dependencies and download them if anything is missing. -- we need a callback for progress indication: download, build, etc -- run m2 (embedded): including running building, archetypes, etc. -- introspect available plugins and their goals -- to generate source folders for eclipse project from m2 pom.xml we need to run generate-sources phase, so all plugins registered for this phase will be kicked of and will register target folders for compilation. Ideally it would be nice to ask these plugins for the target folders, but Brett said it will be only in 2.1, so I guess we'll have to actually run these plugins and generate code.