That will work but introduces two other problems. 1) Whenever you do a maven clean, it will blow away the classes which completely confuses eclipse's incremental compiler. 2) When I do a release, I don't want it to have classes compiled with eclipse's compiler. I want to use the JDK compiler. Those are the reasons why we use target/eclipse-classes[-tests] instead of the default location. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034923#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...