Thanks Snjezana and Fred,Guys, thanks to Snjeza's patch that prevents unnecessary pom.* modifications, you can try m2eclipse-mavenarchiver 0.16.0 from the following p2 repo : http://repository.tesla.io:8081/nexus/content/sites/m2e.extras/m2eclipse-mavenarchiver/0.16.0/N/0.16.0.201401211452/