In Eclipse Helios with m2eclipse installed, Build Automatically is on by default. I can see that this uses some sort of incremental Maven builder under the covers (for Maven projects, obviously).
How can I customize the Maven builder so that, for example, I can supply it with some -D options? Specifically, I want my automatic, incremental Maven builds to be run with -Dmaven.buildNumber.doCheck=false. I see nowhere where I can actually affect the configuration of the m2eclipse-supplied Maven builder.
I am aware that I can create a run configuration and then explicitly build my project using Run As..., but I don't want to pursue that path. I want to customize the way my project is built when I choose the Build All command from the Project menu. I also want these customizations to be in effect when an automatic build is triggered.
I don't particularly want to add settings to my ~/.m2/settings.xml file because I don't actually want my command-line Maven installation to pick up these settings outside of Eclipse.
Thanks in advance for any help here.
At the moment, you need to put the settings in a profile and then trigger that profile. The M2E gang has removed the settings that used to be useful for this purpose.
You can make a custom settings.xml in a separate location and configure THAT in the m2e prefs.