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@@ -1562,6 +1562,31 @@ general mechanism to ensure that would be safe for a running application anyway,
 would only ever be a development time trick probably).
 
 
+[[howto-reload-springloaded-maven]]
+==== Configuring Spring Loaded for use with Maven
+To use Spring Loaded with the Maven command line, just add it as a dependency in the 
+Spring Boot plugin declaration, e.g.
+
+.pom.xml
+[source,xml,indent=0]
+----
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<dependencies>
+					<dependency>
+						<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+						<artifactId>springloaded</artifactId>
+						<version>1.2.0.RELEASE</version>
+					</dependency>
+				</dependencies>
+			</plugin>
+----
+
+This normally works pretty well with Eclipse and IntelliJ as long as
+they have their build configuration aligned with the Maven defaults
+(Eclipse m2e does this out of the box).
+
 [[howto-reload-springloaded-gradle-and-intellij]]
 ==== Configuring Spring Loaded for use with Gradle and IntelliJ
 You need to jump through a few hoops if you want to use Spring Loaded in combination with