[David Searles]

When I import a Maven project, neither “Build All”, “Build Project”, “Clean…” or “Build Automatically” will build the “install” goal. The only way I can get that (or any other goal, for that matter) to build is to right-click the “pom.xml” file and trigger a Maven build of the desired goal. This is totally unacceptable.

How can I get MyEclipse to treat Maven projects like ANT projects (in that they build when resources are changed OR cleaned)?

[support-eugene]

You can add this to your project:
1. Open project proprties. Open Builders page.
2. Click New… Select “Maven Build”
3. Configure the build settings as you need. Notice the “Refresh” page – you might want to synchronize MyEclipse workbench state with file system state.

[David Searles]

I had tried that but the project just kept building and building and building, over and over again. It would complete the build then in 5 -10 seconds started building again and again; I was making NO changes to the project but it just kept building.

[support-eugene]

Ok, I see the problem. I was wrong – step 3 (Refresh tab) should be omitted. I will open a problem report so we solve the problem.

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