I've tried on many occasions to make Maven work with Eclipse but Maven nearly always finds a way to mess up Eclipse's excellent project management abilities. I'

I've tried on many occasions to make Maven work with Eclipse but Maven nearly always finds a way to mess up Eclipse's excellent project management abilities. I'd say that if you just write code in an editor then Maven makes a lot of sense, if you use a powerful IDE like Eclipse then Maven becomes an unwieldy and unnecessary challenge.