Hi,
I have a web project specified in a maven pom.
There are two ways to make it eclipse friendly:
1. Run mvn eclipse:eclipse
2. Import it into eclipse with m2e installed and it "automatically" converts.
They do about the same thing. I have seen elsewhere that #2 is preferred. I also saw elsewhere that #1 was out of favor - I had expected it to be marked as deprecated when I went to the docs, but it wasn't. So I guess the real answer is: which are you more comfortable with? Do that one. Me, I would use #2 mainly because I would not think of working with a Maven project in Eclipse without m2e.