STS/Eclipse "Java EE" perspective does not recognise maven directory structure - eclipse

Question

I'm new to maven and I am trying to get eclipse to recognise the maven directory structure when i'm using the dynamic web project perspective.
So I started with the question here: A Java web project created with Maven is not recognized as such by Eclipse and I got this far:
I edited the eclipse-plugin in my pom.xml as:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
<wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
<additionalBuildcommands>
<buildcommand>com.atlassw.tools.eclipse.checkstyle.CheckstyleBuilder</buildcommand>
</additionalBuildcommands>
<additionalConfig>
<file>
<name>.checkstyle</name>
<url>http://rs.gbif.org/conventions/java-style-config.xml</url>
</file>
</additionalConfig>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Then I used the command
mvn eclipse:eclipse
and it gave the following as output:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building IPT 2.0.3-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> maven-eclipse-plugin:2.6:eclipse (default-cli) # ipt >>>
[INFO]
[INFO] --- buildnumber-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-4:create (default) # ipt ---
[INFO] Checking for local modifications: skipped.
[INFO] Updating project files from SCM: skipped.
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "svn --non-interactive info"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\IOR_SVN\gbif-providertoolkit-read-only\gbif-ipt
[INFO] Storing buildNumber: 3391 at timestamp: 1309767247372
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "svn --non-interactive info"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\IOR_SVN\gbif-providertoolkit-read-only\gbif-ipt
[INFO] Storing buildScmBranch: trunk
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< maven-eclipse-plugin:2.6:eclipse (default-cli) # ipt <<<
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-eclipse-plugin:2.6:eclipse (default-cli) # ipt ---
[INFO] Adding support for WTP version 2.0.
[INFO] Using Eclipse Workspace: null
[INFO] Adding default classpath container: org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAIN
ER
[WARNING] Invalid POM for org.apache.struts:struts2-core:jar:2.0.5, transitive d
ependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more detail
s
[INFO] ### TRUE - Manifests are equal
[INFO] Not writing Manifest file as it is unchanged: C:\IOR_SVN\gbif-providertoo
lkit-read-only\gbif-ipt\src\main\webapp\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
[INFO] Wrote settings to C:\IOR_SVN\gbif-providertoolkit-read-only\gbif-ipt\.set
tings\org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
[INFO] Wrote Eclipse project for "ipt" to C:\IOR_SVN\gbif-providertoolkit-read-o
nly\gbif-ipt.
So doing this method I get the my Java Folders recognized in the "Java Perspective" in eclipse, but when I go to the "Java EE" perspective then nothing is recognized there. So the source as well as the webapps folder does not get recognised.
In terms of versions, I use the SpringSource IDE version 2.3.1 and I use version 3 of maven (this version didn't come with maven prebundled so I downloaded the latest maven)

Answer 1

I have seen this happen when you run eclipse:eclipse command, some of the eclipse project facets properties on eclipse are changing, To verify this do this in eclipse
Select the project ==> properties ==> Project Facets ==> Dynamic Web Module (facets property)
I think that property check box is not checked (hence eclipse won't recognize your web project)