My goal is to have eclipse m2e access a corporate Artifactory instance using client certs and NOT have other things that I run from eclipse use those certs.

In IntelliJ it’s really easy, you can set the VM options for the Maven runner only.

One approach for eclipse that I tried was to create a JRE with the “Default VM arguments” to point to those client certs, but I can’t see how to get m2e to use that JRE unless it’s the default JRE.

TBC, I’m not attached to this solution. Just that when I run maven from eclipse I use those certs, and when I run anything else, I don’t.

Thank you very much.