you may think this a little sad, but I wanted to share my pleasure in adding a small simple step to my development process that helps me deal with the situation where projects have been removed from svn, but remain in my eclipse workspace, usually signalled by the eclipse workspace looking like a christmas tree, for all the red icons.
1) delete all projects from eclipse (but not from the file system) 2) mvn eclipse:clean 3) import existing projects into eclipse (only the ones not now handled by the pom will remain) 4) delete all projects from the eclipse workspace and from disk - (caveat emptor) or go find them on the file system and move them elsewhere if you're not feeling brave 5) mvn eclipse:eclipse 6) import existing projects into workspace :)
