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# Maven Development Tools

Maven Development Tools is a collection of m2e extensions that enables 
end-to-end debugging of Maven Plugins, Maven Core and their dependencies from
m2e development workspace, without the need to install artifacts to the local
Maven repository.

For Maven Plugin developers this provides ability to run and debug plugin 
directly from Eclipse workspace. Changes to plugin sources, pom.xml 
dependencies, etc, are picked up during next Run/Debug as Maven Build or 
Maven IT launch. Breakpoints and sources lookup will automatically work in 
plugin,  plugin dependencies and maven runtime code.

For Maven Core developers this provides ability to run and debug maven 
directly from eclipse workspace. Changes to maven core source, dependencies,
etc, are picked up during next Run-As Maven Build or Maven IT launch. 
Additionally, Run/Debug as Maven IT launch configuration can be used to run
majority of Maven Core integration tests directly from Eclipse workspace.