Question

I hate ta ask the same question that seems to hav been asked so many times but I get this error when I attempt autocomplete with eclipse indigo on a maven svn project; None of the answers given seem to work
‘this compilation unit is not on the build path of a java project’

Answer 1

just posting the answer in case somene is lost same way I was
I just added the bold sections below in my .project file

this still left me with imports that cant be resolved so autocomplete does not work all the way – to solve this I had to add specific jars from the maven repository in the build path – seems eclipse will just not add these automatically even if I have the maven repository
variable in the build path

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <projectDescription>
        <name>MYPROJECT</name>
        <comment></comment>
        <projects>
        </projects>
        <buildSpec>
               <!--Added this buildcommand section  -->
            <buildCommand>
                <name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
                <arguments>
                </arguments>
            </buildCommand>
            <buildCommand>
                <name>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Builder</name>
                <arguments>
                </arguments>
            </buildCommand>
        </buildSpec>
        <natures>
            <nature>org.eclipse.m2e.core.maven2Nature</nature>
               <!--Added this nature section  -->
            <nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>        
        </natures>
    </projectDescription>