Q for Eclipse, or Q4E for short, is an Eclipse plugin which integrates Eclipse with the Apache Maven build system.

To install Q4E, start Eclipse and navigate to the dialogue for installing and updating software features (Help → Software Updates…). From the Software Updates and Add-ons dialog use the Add Site… button on the Available Software tab to add the following new update site URL to the Eclipse update mechanism:

http://q4e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite

After closing the Add Site dialog by pressing the OK button a new update site entitled http://q4e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite will appear in the list of enabled update sites.

Select the Q for Eclipse feature in the Community section of the update site and press Install…. Eclipse will calculate dependencies and display a list containing the item to be installed. Press the Next> button, review the licenses of the items to be installed and, if they are acceptable, select the option to accept the license terms and press the Finish button.

Eclipse will download and install the items. If prompted, restart Eclipse to complete the installation.

To verify the installation, start Eclipse, open the Preferences… panel, and check that there is a Maven section.