Eclipse and Maven Console

Eclipse 3.7 Indigo has integrated Maven m2e plugin but is missing some expected functionality which was previously present in Sonatype releases by default. If you want your Maven Console to show something you must also install the optional “m2e – slf4j over logback logging” plugin.

When installing the m2e plugin there is an optional feature “m2e – slf4j over logback logging” which is needed for the Maven Console to work.… Continue reading

Eclipse: Class file name must end with .class exception in search

Eclipse is nice IDE but it has it’s own problems. This time the Java Search and Open Type -search produced an error saying “Class file name must end with .class”. Very helpfull. Fortunately almost all the answers in the world can be found in the Internet and so with a quick googling the solution to this annoying problem was found on Stack Overflow.… Continue reading