Eclipse and Maven interaction can be a bit of a pain at times, but now since upgrading to the latest version of Eclipse (Kepler) whenI import my Maven projects the folders are all marked with the red x error indicator icon and multiple popups display with the following error message: Eclipse Error: “Enabling Maven Dependency Management” has encountered a problem To resolve this I had run the following steps: 1. Disable Maven nature from each of the projects 2. Run a the following maven command on the project: mvn eclipse:clean 3. Right click on the project and do the following Configure > Convert to Maven Project... Environment Windows 7 64-bit Eclipse Kepler 64-bit Maven 3.1.1 Java 64-bit 1.7.0_51