SO, I tried using the nifty " mvn -Dwtpversion=1.5 eclipse:eclipse" and got a big ugly error:
[INFO] Cant canonicalize system path: {0}
Embedded error: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrec
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The root cause of the problem is that you can not use any variables in the placeholders of your resources in your pom. This is what I had that gave me problems. You can't do this with this plugin: