Good to hear you got it working on a "plain" install. Let us know when it stops working (if it does) About Seam enabled project structure then there is a couple of parts. 1) The seam wizard is based on WTP project structure but it does not have to be - but if not it won't work well in Eclipse 2) Seam has a couple of settings (look in .settings) for how it knows which projects is the war,ear,jar - action, model etc. These can all be the same project from the seam tooling perspective (that is how we can work with plain seam-gen projects) 3) we deploy the -ds.xml (not the resources directory) by doing the same as right clicking the file and click Make deployable. That being said then I have zero experience with maven-archetypes and they do by their nature most likely conflict with writes from Eclipse wizards, but I think m2eclipse have found a way around that - but I do not know the details. I also know that m2eclipse have done work to make maven projects usable from eclipse WTP so whatever work they have done there you should be able to reuse. If you take on the challenge then let us know and i'll be glad to help out/incorporate it if at all possible. But as said, i'm a maven archetype noob...hope you can use the above to start ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4198437#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...