Joe Freeman: Tech, Teams, Trade-offs

Microsoft has a nice TFS Eclipse plugin that acts like any other Eclipse team provider.  It provides full TFS Source Control and Team view support inside of Eclipse. You can find information about the plugin on the the Microsoft MSDN site . Team Foundation Server supports TFS version control (TFS) projects and GIT version control (TFS) projects.  TFS uses the concept of a workspace to track changes.  A TFS Project Workspace can be managed as either a "Server Workspace" or "Local Workspace".  There are several good articles that describe how this works phkelly's blog  and MSDN documentation . Server Workspace : These were the default for all workspaces created prior to TFS 2012. Server Workspace follows an older convention where all files on the local machine are marked as "Read Only" until checked out for modification.  This means you cannot edit files outside of TFS or Eclipse unless they have already been checked out for modification. Server w...

The Maven Eclipse plugin is a great tool that lets you create an Eclipse project from a Maven project with just the mvn eclipse:eclipse command.  It always seems to work great on my big projects,probably  because someone has already done the configuration required to get the right information generated into .project and .classpath.   I've always struggled to make it work in a small demonstration or test project.  The maven constructed Eclipse project is never configured right and I can't run the war on my local Servlet container. Eclipse supports web files through the Eclipse Web Tools Project (WTP) project and through the Dynamic Web Facet when facets are enabled.  The Dynamic Web Facet is either missing or mis-configured after the  mvn eclipse:eclipse command. You must tell the Maven Eclipse Plugin (not to be confused with m2e) to use WTP when building the Eclipse project. The simplest command is:        mvn -Dwtpversion=2.0 ec...