This Maven and Eclipse tutorial shows how to create simple and archetype Maven projects in the Eclipse IDE that can build, compile and install Java code.

Maven crash course for beginners The Apache Maven Java build tool stands entrenched as the preeminent project to use when you need to compile, test and package enterprise software.

Eclipse continues to be the standard for Java developers. If you are creating Java applications chances are you are using some combination of the JDT and Web Tools or Java EE Tools project.