I am using Eclipse Indigo. I installed the maven package on eclipse. I configured the Pom and nearly everything is fine. Just maven is not building the default folder bath
src/main/java

Here is the pom.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>TestProject</groupId>
<artifactId>TestProject</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.0.7</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<ajdtVersion>1.6</ajdtVersion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I cleaned the project,installed and build it…. also I upgradet the project… the dependencies are all fine… no error at all.. why isn’t the folder build ?
Eclipse’s integration with maven is (to say at least) appalling. If you want to create a new project: create the pom and the folders, and then run mvn eclipse:eclipse to create the project files for eclipse. The simple solution that I’ve followed for a couple of years is to use the community edition of Intellij.
Aswering your second question: well… again, the integration is so poor that sometimes you’ll need to close and reopen the project for eclipse to read the new changes. Most of the time, a refresh + clean project will force eclipse to read the project configuration.