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November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

Installing Maven tool support in vanilla Eclipse IDE

If you download an Eclipse bundle like the Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers, you’ll get Maven support built in, but if you download a vanilla Eclipse install (like from using from of the daily builds), you’ll need to install many pllugins yourself.

Eclipse support for Maven is provided via the m2Eclipse plugin, there are installation instructions here:

I’ve had luck using these installer buttons before, but on this daily build for M1 they don’t seem to do anything. Instead I used the manual approach by adding a new ‘site’ in ‘Add New Software, ‘ adding https://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases/latest/ and then selecting ‘Maven Integration for Eclipse’ :

Done!

October 31, 2021January 30, 2022

Installing Eclipse IDE for Apple M1 Silicon

Update January 2022: Since writing this official release versions are now available with MacOS AArch64 builds for M1 Macs from the main downloads page: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

From the official Eclipse downloads page as of 10/31/21 there aren’t any M1 builds ready for download. However, following the comments on this bug/feature request, there have been daily builds for M1 it looks like for some time. The daily builds are available here.

I downloaded the latest stable build from here:

Double-clicking the downloaded .dmg and then dragging the Eclipse app into Applications is all that was needed to install. Done!

October 31, 2021October 29, 2021

Installing Azul OpenJDK 17 on MacBook Pro M1

Installation of Azul’s OpenJDK build for native M1 is pretty uneventful, nothing different from what you’d expect from a typical .pkg installer on MacOS:

October 30, 2021October 28, 2021

Adobe Creative Cloud apps: Native M1 or using Rosetta?

Following on from my previous post about the Creative Cloud desktop app requiring Rosetta to run, there is a page on the Adobe site that highlights which Adobe apps have been packaged for Native M1 and which are still only Intel based and require Rosetta to run here.

The majority of apps have been updated to run on M1 already:

While the apps are still Intel only and require Rosetta to run on M1:

Installing Photoshop from the Create Cloud desktop app correctly identifies running on M1 and gives you the option of the native M1 version by default, or even picking the Intel version if you want to run it on Rosetta: