I would like to build the PIX project in Eclipse without using Maven. Has anyone been able to get PIX compiled and working from within Eclipse? What jar files are required?

From the wrox-pix-web directory , run the command mvn eclipse:eclipse

This will create a eclipse project for you.

Import the wrox-pix-web project as an eclipse project using Import an existing project option. The .classpath contains the M2_REPO variable which you need to set it for resolving dependencies. Create a Java build path variable M2_REPO and point to your local maven repository, typical location is C:\Documents and Settings\$username\.m2\repository.

I got the project to compile and run including all of the JUnit tests. I would however like to have all of the libraries in a local lib directory inside of the eclipse project rather than using the maven repository. Is there any way to copy the jar files that are used from the maven repository to another directory? I could just do a find and then copy every jar file but the repository has multiple versions for the same jar and I only want the latest one.

I was able to get all of the jar files by building the web app following the instructions in appendix c. The only jar file missing was the spring-mock library which I copied from the maven repository.

I create a new Eclipse Dynamic Web app, copied the source and configs over to the new project and it works as expected.