title: How do I get m2eclipse to recognize $M2_OPTS?
body: <p>It appears m2eclipse is not recognizing my $M2_OPTS variable.</p>
  
  <p>I can run the same build outside of eclipse fine (with cranked up heapsize):</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 51 seconds
  [INFO] Finished at: Tue Nov 10 00:00:02 EST 2009
  [INFO] Final Memory: 72M/187M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I run this with m2eclipse I always run out of memory:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Java heap space
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Trace
    java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
      at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
      at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
      ...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 1 minute 27 seconds
  [INFO] Finished at: Mon Nov 09 23:56:32 EST 2009
  [INFO] Final Memory: 43M/81M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><em>SOLUTION</em> : Add the mem args to the Installed JREs tab of the Java preferences.</p>