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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:41:34+00:00

My Eclipse recently broke completely and I have upgraded to Galileo. I have created

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My Eclipse recently broke completely and I have upgraded to Galileo. I have created a fresh workspace (say foo/workspace) and created a trivial project. I have then copied an old project from (bar/workspace/myproject) to foo/workspace/myproject. It is mavenised and has a pom.xml. How do I tell Eclipse to build it (it does not seem to recognise it is mavenised). Do I have to install the maven plugin?

In general what is the smoothest way to reinstall Eclipse (i.e. what else do I need to think about?)

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  1. Editorial Team

    1. I never create or checkout a project directly under the Workspace but rather use something like ~/Projects for all my projects. This allows me to remain IDE independent. Actually, I never use any IDE to create a project.

    2. I share my workspace location across several Eclipse install (specified at startup or using -data). If anything goes wrong, I don’t mind deleting and loosing my workspace, it doesn’t contain anything really important anyway.

    3. Use the m2eclipse Eclipse plugin to Import > Maven Projects into Eclipse. Another option is to use the maven eclipse plugin to generate the .project and .classpath from the command line and then to Import > Existing Projects into Workspace from Eclipse.

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