How to convert Dynamic Web Project to Maven Project in Eclipse

By Atul Rai | Last Updated: July 23, 2018 Previous       Next

This Eclipse tutorial will explain how to convert Dynamic Web Project to Maven Project in Eclipse step by step. Eclipse is the most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to design and develop Java based web application. In Dynamic Web Project you need to configure the required library manually and it not easy to carry the project.

What is Maven?

Maven is a  build tool that makes build process easy. Maven addresses two aspects of building software: first, it describes how software is built, and second, it describes its dependencies. In Maven project we simply add dependencies in pom.xml, it will automatically download the required library/jars.

Follow the below steps…

Step 1: Select your Dynamic Web Project and hit the Right Click button.

Step 2: Now click on the Configure » Covert to Maven Project

Step 3: After clicking on Convert to Maven Project, a new pop-up window will open. It will show the configuration of pom.xml

Step 4: Hit the Finish button. Finally, your Dynamic Web Project successfully converted into Maven Project.

Step 5: Project structure of Maven Project.

Step 6: Done. Thank You 🙂