Importing a maven project in eclipse

You can import a maven project to eclipse without installing the maven plugin by following these simple steps

Generate Eclipse specific files
Eclipse looks for .classpath and .project files in your project. Use the maven command mvn eclipse:eclipse to generate files for your project

Importing the Project in Eclipse

1. Start Eclipse. Goto File and select Import...

2. Select Existing Projects into Workspace. Click Next

3. When asked to select root directory, browse and point it to the project folder you want to import

4. Click Finish and your project is successfully imported into eclipse

Note: Make sure that M2_REPO variable is set to Maven Local Repository in eclipse