Provide Project Natures And Build Commands for Eclipse

The default project nature for projects created by the Eclipse Plugin is org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature and the default build command is org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder. Additional project natures and build commands are also added as needed when WTP is enabled.

If you want to provide additional project natures and build commands for your project, i.e. Spring project, you can add them in your pom.xml like this:

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    [...]
    <plugins>
      [...]
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <additionalProjectnatures>
            <projectnature>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springnature</projectnature>
          </additionalProjectnatures>
          <additionalBuildcommands>
            <buildcommand>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springbuilder</buildcommand>
          </additionalBuildcommands>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      [...]
    </plugins>
    [...]
  </build>
  [...]
</project>

To provide your own project natures and build commands which will override the defaults, you can put them in your pom.xml as follows:

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    [...]
    <plugins>
      [...]
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin<artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <projectnatures>
            <projectnature>my.own.project.nature</projectnature>
          </projectnatures>
          <buildcommands>
            <buildcommand>my.own.build.command</buildcommand>
          </buildcommands>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      [...]
    </plugins>
    [...]
  </build>
  [...]
</project>