Why does my eclipse project not have a build path?

Question

What is the advantage with not having a build path in eclipse? Why is that setting default when it\'s like something you\'d never use? It seems eclipse indigo was developed to m

Answer 1

There where no entrys after right click on my projekt in Eclipse. How to click something, wenn build path entries are missing. So my Eclpise didn't detect my java project. I used following Maven command and after that I cleaned the project too. Now Projekt works as expected. So...

If you are using Maven, try mvn eclipse:eclipse in cmd console in your project directory! Make sure to use the path to your Maven folder for the command.

For example:

cd C:\yourEclipseProject\

C:\yourPathToMaven\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin\mvn eclipse:eclipse

This was helping me. After unsuccessful web research, a coworker told me this tip.