m2Eclipse plugin: What does 'Resolve Workspace Artifacts' do?

Question

I'm sorry if I am asking a possibly-trivial question, but I am having so much trouble finding out exactly what Resolve Workspace Artifacts does in the Maven build window in the Eclipse IDE, using the M2Eclipse plugin. I'm referring to this:

Does anyone have any idea? I tried google-ing and stackoverflow-ing the solution; there are lots of bug requests/reports but no clear-cut descriptions of this option. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Assume you have two or more projects in your workspace eg project1 , project2 and so on. If project1 is dependent on project2 and project3 , you just need to define the dependency of project1 on project2 and project3 .

By enabling Resolve Workspace Artifacts , m2Eclipse will auto-build the SNAPSHOT JAR of project2 and project3 and add in the classpath of project1 .

In other words, it resolves the dependencies with workspace projects.