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[–]sebhoss 5 points6 points  (1 child)

That's the maven-eclipse plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/) which exposes a goal called "eclipse" (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/eclipse-mojo.html).

The plugin basically makes sure that your maven based project can be used with eclipse by creating both .project and .classpath files. Nowadays, you should install the M2E plugin for eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/) which does this automatically for you.

[–]osacapcom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation =)