Question

Am using eclipse helios with m2eclipse plugin. For a maven project checked out from CVS, how do i tell eclipse to automatically fetch all the jars needed for that project from the dependencies mentioned in the pom.

Thanks for your time

Answer 1

m2eclipse should do this for you (dependencies will be copied to your local repository) and build a valid classpath.
I you have any doubts that the resolved dependencies are outdated try

<select project> -> Context Menu -> Maven -> Update Dependencies

If you want to guarantee that all dependencies (and plugins) are in your local repository you can run the go-offline goal from the Maven Dependency Plugin:

mvn dependency:go-offline

If you want to copy all needed dependencies to one place, use the copy-dependencies goal

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

The Maven Dependency Plugin will copy all dependencies (including transitive) to the target/dependency folder in this case.

You can run all these commands also from eclipse using:

<select project> -> Context Menu -> Run As -> Maven build... -> <type goals> -> Run