Maven Project Explorer (<= 0.4.1)

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Features

Maven extension for VS Code. It now reads pom.xml in root folder, and provide project structures in sidebar, improving user experience for Java developers who use Maven.

• Effective POM
• Shortcut to common goals, namely clean, validate, compile, test, package, verify, install, site, deploy.
• Perserve history of custom goals for fast re-run long commands(e.g. mvn clean package -DskipTests -Dcheckstyle.skip).
• Can generate projects from Maven Archetype.
• Support multi-module maven projects.
• Support VSCode multi-root workspace.

Requirements

Provide Maven executable filepath.

• By default, mvn command is executed directly in the terminal, which requires mvn can be found in system envronment PATH.
• If you do not want to add it into PATH, you can specify maven executable path in settings:

  {
      "maven.executable.path": "/some-path-to-maven-home/bin/mvn"
  }
  

Usage

• The extension scans pom.xml from each root folder in your workspace recursively, and display all maven projects and their modules in the sidebar.

  

• To speed up the searching of maven projects, you can exclude folders in settings:

  {
      "maven.projects.excludedFolders": [
          "**/.*",                // exclude hidden folders
          "**/node_modules"       // exclude node modules to speed up
      ]
  }
  

• It perserves history of custom goals for each project, so you can fast re-run previous long commands, e.g. mvn <goals> -Dparam1=value1 -Dparam2=value2 -Dparam3=value3 ...

  

• Archetype Related

  • Generate from Maven Archetype The extension loads archetypes listed in local/remote catelog. After selection, the extension fires mvn archetype:generate -D... in terminal.

  

Release Notes

Refer to CHANGELOG