THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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This gives the message when executing mvn eclipse:eclipse
WARNING The references manifest file doesn't exist, plugin dependencies will not be updated: C:\a\Eclipse\3.3\apache\uimaj-ep-runtime\.ignore
If you don't have this, eclipse:eclipse overwrites the manifest for the plugin, which looses loses all the plugin configuration information.
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