Is this plugin (m2eclipse) not an option? If I do a clean checkout of microcontainer, then delete the .project and .classpath files. Then create a project in eclipse and right click (maven-> enable). Eclipse sets up the project and classpath settings for me. This way we could remove the .project and .classpath files from the command line, and not have to use eclipse:eclipse from the command line. Assuming that this plugin is installed in eclipse, the steps could just be: 1. Check out the project from svn using subclipse. 2. Right click on the project and enable maven. 3. (Optional) Change local preferences as needed. Am I missing something that is required in the setup of the project? It didn't work for me when I tried to set up the individual modules of microcontainer as eclipse projects, so I guess this part might still require eclipse:eclipse. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034061#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...