Checking out hierarchical Maven project in Eclipse

Question

I have checked out using subversion/subclipse a hierarchical maven project into my Eclipse project.

At first it is a plain folder structure, then I right click->Configure..->Convert to Maven Project.

Now the top node is a Maven project, however all the sub nodes are not recognised as maven projects. I have tried Maven->install and nothing happens.

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possible duplicate of [Importing maven project into eclipse](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2061094/importing-maven-project-into-eclipse) — pjanssen, Jul 14 '15 at 08:01
The top answer on this other thread is really too old and not recommended any more. So although it's a duplicate, this one will get more recent/better answers. — Mickael, Jul 15 '15 at 09:31
no that link does not address my problem. I found out the solution (posted below) — Oliver Watkins, Jul 15 '15 at 11:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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You have to import the projects as maven projects.

just right-click the package explorer and Import... > Maven projects to import an existing maven project into Eclipse.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jul 14 '15 at 08:00

pjanssen

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '15 at 11:51

I realise the mistake was that I checked out one level too high. Instead of checking out the root node, I checked out the folder above it.

So in that case Eclipse created a POM file for me for that directory, which confused me into thinking that was the parent POM.

Notice how there is a question mark on the top level POM? It is not in SVN yet.

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