How do I create a JAR with m2e (m2eclipse)?

I'm new to Maven and m2e. It frustrates me that I have to ask this question, but the sparse m2e documentation and Google are failing me.

How do get m2e to build a JAR? I understand that this should happen during the maven package phase, but m2e doesn't seem to do this as part of the build process and I can't find a way to explicitly execute the package phase in Eclipse (nor any other phases that aren't part of the default build).

Thanks.

Solution

As long as you have your POM.xml file with the following parameters:

<modelVersion>[a model number eg 4.0.0]</modelVersion>
<groupId>[a group id eg com.myapp]</groupId>
<artifactId>[a unique artifact id within your packages eg myapp]</artifactId>
<version>[the version number eg 1.0-SNAPSHOT]</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>[the name eg myapp]</name>

then you just need to run maven build with the goals clean install to create a jar file from your project. You can run maven build by right clinking on the project and going to run > maven build ...

The jar will be created in [project dir]/target