I know I’ve come across various Eclipse plugins that work with maven artifacts like the Project Object Model (pom.xml), but m2eclipse is the first I’ve seen that really attempts to integrate the two project environments. m2eclipse at Codehaus is just getting going, being at a 0.0.10 release, but it looks very promising. Check out the flash demo, the debug integration is really cool. I’m definitely going to give this plugin a whirl shortly as I’m planning a couple of new projects where I’ll be using maven2 in anger (I’ve been a maven 1.x baby for a while, but I think its time to grow up!).