Generate Eclipse Project

To generate an Eclipse project using the Maven project metadata, run this:

mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true $*

Maven Plugin Help

To see the help (configuration parameters, etc.) for a given plugin, use this command:

mvn help:describe \
    -DgroupId=<group ID> \
    -DartifactId=<artifact ID> \
    -Dversion=<version> \
    -Dfull=true

For example, for Jetty:

mvn help:describe \
    -DgroupId=org.mortbay.jetty \
    -DartifactId=maven-jetty-plugin \
    -Dversion=6.1.16 \
    -Dfull=true