all well and fun however importing it in eclipse is not making it a web project.
for eclipse ganymede,
mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0
worked almost.It still gives an error in eclipse:
Java compiler level does not match the version of the installed Java project facet. Unknown Faceted Project Problem (Java Version Mismatch)
I fixed that by 1: in the compiler properties downgrading to java version 1.4, and than in projects facets setting the java version back to 5.0et voila!