You have to create a new workspace (and stop using the old workspace) in a location that isn't a parent directory of where you created the project directory:
"From now on you have different options to proceed. If you are working on all modules simultanously and you rather have eclipse project dependencies than binary dependencies, you should set up a new workspace and import all projects form step-by-step/guide-ide-eclipse. Note, you have to delete the .project-file of your parent project before. The result is equals to checking out the whole project from the command line, running mvn eclipse:eclipse and finally importing the projects into your eclipse workspace. In both cases you will be able to synchronize your changes using eclipse." If you completed the initial steps in a workspace located in D: \step-by-step, you should create a new workspace in a place that isn't D:\step-by-step (e.g. D:\workspace-step-by-step) and import the modules (guide-ide-eclipse-core, guide-ide-eclipse-site, guide-ide-eclipse-module1, but not the project root) from D: \step-by-step into the new workspace. To import the modules, select File -> New -> Project... from the Eclipse menu, choose Java Project, click Next, select Create project from existing source, click Browse... and navigate into a module directory (e.g. D:\step-by-step\guide-ide-eclipse\guide-ide-eclipse-core), click OK, set the Project name to the module name (e.g. guide-ide-eclipse-core) and click Finish. You should end up with 3 projects in your new workspace: guide-ide-eclipse-core guide-ide-eclipse-site guide-ide-eclipse-module1 You will also need to add the M2_REPO classpath variable to your new workspace: mvn -Declipse.workspace=D:\workspace-step-by-step eclipse:add-maven-repo You may choose to flatten the project as described at the end of the Guide. This handy so that you can edit the parent module in Eclipse. If you do that, you'll have one more project in your workspace: guide-ide-eclipse-project. I know this is all quite annoying, but the cause of the annoyance Eclipse's insistence that all projects are peers, rather than allowing a true hierarchical project/module directory structure. I really wish Eclipse did not have this limitation. -Max On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 06:48 -0800, Catalin Kormos wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm realy new to Maven, and trying to setup Maven2 for a multiple module > project in Eclipse. I've been following the guide found here: > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ide-eclipse.html step by step, but > when i want to import the projects in eclipse it can't, saying: Invalid > project description. > D:\step-by-step\guide-ide-eclipse\guide-ide-eclipse-core overlaps the > workspace location: D:\step-by-step > > Thanks for your help, > Catalin > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
