Convert Java project to Maven project

Installing m2eclipse
(Just so you know, STS comes with this plugin already, whew!)
Select Java project, right click, maven->Enable Dependency Management.

Or you could New->Maven->Maven POM File

To create a new Maven project

New->Maven->Maven Project
You could choose which archetype you want to generate, there a lot of them!!!!

You could also run maven command in Eclipse, by using Run as, Maven Build, you could specify your goal.