We are pleased to announce the Maven Eclipse Plugin 1.3 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 Smarter generation of .classpath file. ${basedir} prefix is cut off if 
  present in any path. Default Maven location of source and destination 
  folder are used. 
o Added dependency functionality between projects 

  Changes:

o Split eclipse goal in two goals : eclipse:generate-project and 
  eclipse:generate-classpath  

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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=1.3

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin-1.3.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