Often times, you may to use “mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=1.5” command to create a web project for Eclipse IDE, but you may encounter the following error messages.

Unsupported WTP version: 1.5. 
This plugin currently supports only the following versions: 1.0 R7
D:\mkyong>mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=1.5
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'eclipse'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building wicketHelloWorld
[INFO]    task-segment: [eclipse:eclipse]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Preparing eclipse:eclipse
[INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping
[INFO] [eclipse:eclipse]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Unsupported WTP version: 1.5. This plugin currently supports only the 
following versions: 1.0 R7

The solution is include the “maven-eclipse-plugin” Maven plugin into pom.xml file.

<plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.5</version>
	  <configuration>
		 <wtpversion>1.5</wtpversion>
	  </configuration>
</plugin>

Done. Try mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=1.5 command again.

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