Please consider the following; A very small change will allow for jars to be kept inside your project folders without hardcoded paths ending up in your Eclipse .classpath file. Excuse me for the format, but i've no diff available at the moment in file templates/classpath.jelly, near the end change the following Old: <j:otherwise> <classpathentry kind="lib" path="${lib.path}"/> </j:otherwise> New: <j:otherwise> <maven:makeRelativePath var="localJarPath" basedir="${basedir}" path="${lib.path}" separator="/"/> <classpathentry kind="lib" path="${localJarPath}"/> </j:otherwise> <maven:makeRelativePath> will leave the path as it is not relative to "basedir" kind regards, Guido