Question: use maven wrapper in Eclipse

[tivervac]

Related to my recent PR I wonder whether it's possible to use maven wrapper in Eclipse - instead of m2e's embedded maven - to handle all maven operations?

Some internet resources seem to say that you can use maven wrapper, but that dependency resolution will always happen through the embedded maven e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35607335/update-version-of-maven-within-eclipse

[laeubi]

I wonder whether it's possible to use maven wrapper in Eclipse - instead of m2e's embedded maven - to handle all maven operations?

No.

Some internet resources seem to say that you can use maven wrapper, but that dependency resolution will always happen through the embedded maven

That's not whats said there. Technically it is impossible as it would require to recompile the m2e code on the fly and reload your eclipse, that's why it is called embedded maven. You can only control the maven version used to launch external maven runs.

[tivervac]

IIUC, dependency resolution of an external maven run is done by the supplied maven then, right? That would make sense.

[laeubi]

As said if you choose Run As > Maven then m2e uses the configured maven installs (defaults to embedded), in all other cases it uses internal/embedded maven.

[tivervac]

Alright, that answers my question, thanks for the quick answer!