Hi, I use the m2Eclipse-plugin, and therefore I configured my outputDirectories to 'target-eclipse' instead of 'target', as recommended at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Project+FAQ
<!-- see http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Project+FAQ#ProjectFAQ-HowtoconfigureMavenprojecttouseseparateoutputfoldersinEclipse-- > <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}\${target.dir}\classes</outputDirectory> <testOutputDirectory>${project.basedir}\${target.dir}\test-classes</testOutputDirectory> I also configured other plugins to generate-sources to 'target-eclipse\generated-sources' instead of 'target\generated-sources'. This all works fine, but the maven-clean-plugin does only clean the directories project.build.directory, ( => target ) project.build.outputDirectory, (=> target-eclipse\classes) project.build.testOutputDirectory, and (=> target-eclipse\test-classes) project.reporting.outputDirectory (=> target\site) The 'target-eclipse\generated-sources' folder remains uncleaned. So i tried the following: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> <configuration> <filesets> <fileset> <directory>${project.basedir}\${target.dir}</directory> <includes> <include>**\*.*</include> </includes> </fileset> </filesets> </configuration> </plugin> That cleans only the files - the directory structure remains. Is there a way to clean additional folders, too? Thanx, torsten