Eclipse Juno + Maven + CraftBukkit, a plugin project template

I made this plugin project template so that you can just skip the messy process of setting up compilation, packaging and easy testing of your plugin. The following step-by-step will help you make use of my plugin project template. It assumes that you have Eclipse Juno and Maven 3 already downloaded and unpacked somewhere.

1. Make sure that your PATH environment variable points to Maven's bin directory.
2. Make sure that JAVA_HOME points to your JDK's base directory.
3. Make sure you have a local copy of my template. You can achieve that by either cloning it from github, or by downloading a zip (which you will need to extract).
4. Launch Eclipse. Place the PluginTemplate directory into your workspace directory. Go into File -> Import. You will need to select Maven -> Existing Maven Projects in the tree and click next. Set your root directory to the place where you cloned/extracted the PluginTemplate directory. Select /PluginTemplate/pom.xml... from the projects list, hit finish.
5. Right click on PluginTemplate in Project Explorer, press Maven->Update Project..., hit OK.
6. Go into File -> Import. Now, select Run/Debug -> Launch Configurations. Click Browse... and browse to the project directory. Tick "PluginTemplate" and press Finish.
7. Now go to Run->Run Configurations..., follow the tree to Java Application -> Run Craftbukkit and press Run.
8. Voilà, CraftBukkit has started. You can stop it like any java application. Your plugin will be automatically compiled and packaged into a jar. You can now rename things and develop your plugin.

TODO:

1. Add remote debugging

Hope you find this useful! Feel free to fork, etc...

 

Moved to Resources.

 

Thank you. Posted in Plugin Development on accident.

 

Is it ok if I use your template as the template in an eclipse plugin that I'm making that adds a bukkit plugin project to eclipse?

 

What a nice template!!!!!
You really saved me.

(But your instruction was not easy for me coz it was the first time using Maven in Eclipse.)