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Maven importer should support custom POM filenames or honor maven.pomfile.globPattern #4455

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@lilithyang2018

Problem

A Maven Java project uses pom-customize.xml instead of pom.xml.

Maven itself works:

mvn -f pom-customize.xml compile

The VS Code Maven extension can be configured to discover it:

{
  "maven.pomfile.globPattern": "**/{pom.xml,pom-customize.xml}"
}

But the Java language server does not import the Maven classpath from pom-customize.xml. Java files then show false diagnostics such as:

RestController cannot be resolved to a type

Example import:

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

## Expected behavior

The Java language server should either:

1. Honor maven.pomfile.globPattern, or
2. Provide a Java setting such as java.import.maven.pomfile.globPattern, or
3. Support custom Maven POM file names when Maven for Java has already discovered them.

## Actual behavior

Maven Explorer can discover the custom POM, but JDT LS / Red Hat Java does not import the project classpath unless the build file is named pom.xml.

## Environment

- VS Code
- Extension: redhat.java version 1.55.0
- Extension: vscjava.vscode-maven version 0.45.3
- Java: 21
- Maven project file: pom-customize.xml
- No pom.xml in project root

## Workarounds tried

- maven.pomfile.globPattern
- maven.executable.options: -f pom-customize.xml
- .mvn/maven.config with -f pom-customize.xml

These help Maven commands/explorer, but do not fix Java language server diagnostics.

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