Eclipse, Maven and Subversion

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I want to open projects from subversion, in Eclipse using Maven. Why is it so hard?

This used to work - once upon a time I could type

mvn eclipse:eclipse

and it all worked.

However in the new exciting world of Eclipse 3.5 I have to download Eclipse, Install one of TWO subversion plugins. One of TWO maven plugins OR use the command line method.

Why do I have to choose between two eclipse.org projects the do basically the same thing. Why does neither work on my projects that IntelliJ's maven integration has no problem with. Why doesn't mvn eclipse:eclipse work properly with web applications? Why does one of the eclipse.org maven plugins insist on the non eclipse.org subversion plugin?

I think I will go back to IntelliJ now.

I know the answer to all of the above questions - but it is extremely annoying. No wonder people call Java complex.

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