title: How to use custom lifecycle for m2eclipse-type project?
body: <p>When using <strong>m2eclipse</strong> ... if you <strong>right-click on a maven project</strong> and select <strong>Properties</strong> from the popup menu, you enter the project preferences dialog, which has a <strong>Maven->Lifecycle</strong> section allowing to customize which <strong>build phases</strong> should be bound to the build lifecycle, whenever the project is <strong>refreshed or clean-built</strong>. However, these customizations are coarse-grained and get lost upon "project-configuration-update" (same, if you put file "org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs", where these settings are saved under version control ... upon project import, the file will be overwritten).</p>
  
  <p>Searching for a solution, I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2865803/how-do-i-disable-maven-build-when-using-maven-2-0-integration-for-eclipse/2865855#2865855">this answer from pascal-thivent</a> where he describes "how to create a new Maven builder in project preferences..." which didn't quite help in my case, because the "Create-New-Builder-Dialog" in my Eclipse setup unfortunately <strong>cannot find such a Maven Builder</strong>. And the existing builder has the "Edit-Builder" button disabled.</p>