mvn clean deletes target/eclipse-classes

[kabirkhan]

Doing

$mvn clean

deletes the target/eclipse-classes. Can the parent pom.xml be modified to not clean this directory?

[pgier]

The clean plugin currently allows you to delete extra directories (besides the default target directory) but not keep certain directories. I think it would be pretty simple to add this option to the clean plugin, or we can just change the eclipse build path to something outside of target.

[kconner]

The eclipse-classes directory should only be referenced if you are using the eclipse profile, the default profile references target/classes instead.

Which version of maven are you running?

[kconner]

Sorry, misread the postings :)

As Paul states, this is deleted because it is within the target directory. I'll change it to create an eclipse-target directory instead if nobody objects.

[kconner]

No objections so changes are in.

Type 'mvn eclipse:clean' followed by 'mvn -Peclipse' to update the configuration.