Maven Java web project not recognised when importing into Eclipse

Question

A colleague is trying to import a Java web project project into his Eclipse workspace. He&＃39;s installed the m2e plugin and it recognises the "parent" project and the 3 sub projects it has (which are also Maven projects). However when the projects are imported, Eclipse doesn&＃39;t seem to recognise them as Java projects (it doesn&＃39;t show the usual "Java Resources" and "Deployment Descriptor"). The only two things that appear in the Project Explorer are shown below:

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I&＃39;ve imported the same project using my version of Eclipse and it recognises that the project is a Java web project without any issues. Is there something he needs to do/install to get it to work? He has the Eclipse WTP as well as the m2e plugin, so I can&＃39;t see any different between his Eclipse installation and mine.

Fred Bricon 2,216719 · Answer 1 · 2012-09-14 15:41:31Z

You need to install m2eclipse-wtp 0.15.x (fromhttp://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/m2eclipse-wtp/). It contains the necessary configurators to properly set the required project facets of Java EE projects, according to your pom.xml configuration.

Please note that m2eclipse-wtp is moving to the Eclipse foundation and is superceded by m2e-wtp. m2e-wtp 0.16.0 will be released on sept 28th 2012. Until then you can try playing with the latestrelease candidate

Chris Gerken 9,32651535 · Answer 2 · 2012-08-30 13:20:38Z

Try selecting the project in the Package Explorer and performing Maven --> Update Project Configuration

herrtim 1,031516 · Answer 3 · 2012-08-30 18:47:40Z

I experienced something like this once when I was using the "project explorer" view when I thought I was actually using the "package explorer" view. These two views will display your project differently.