Maven: Eclipse not correctly configuring paths in a project with a parent pom

Question

I have a maven project that I correctly build through the command line (mvn test). It is structured this way:

pom.xml
|-------subdir1/pom.xml
|-------subdir2/pom.xml
|-------subdir3/pom.xml

Inside each of the subprojects dir (subdir[1-3]), I have a structure of:

src/main/java
src/test/java

When I import the project to Eclipse, or update the maven configuration (Alt-F5), the srcdirs are incorrectly added to the BuildPath. I always need to manually remove them and add each one of the java dirs to have Eclipse correctly compiling.

How do configure my project so Eclipse will always correctly add the build paths?

Answer 1

Ops, silly me. A colleague of mine added to the pom a spurious configuration:

<build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>

I just removed it from the configuration to use maven convention and everything worked fine. Thanks for the help.