title: maven with eclipse error "Path must include project and resource name"
body: <p>I've recently started using maven with eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>I've set up several projects and I've noticed that if I try and specify a build directory (to over-ride target) which is outside the project directory, I get an error when doing "update project":</p>
  
  <p>'Updating Maven Project' has encountered a problem.</p>
  
  <p>An internal error occurred during: "Updating MAven Project".
  Path must include project and resource name: /[my project name]</p>
  
  <p>I need to build outside the project.  How can I get around this?  Can I perhaps have maven automatically create a softlink?</p>