title: Maven keeps changing project settings - How to edit effective pom file?
body: <p>I told Eclipse to use the output folder </p>
  
  <p><code>E:\java\&lt;project&gt;\&lt;project&gt;-parent\&lt;project&gt;-web-server\war\WEB-INF\classes</code></p>
  
  <p>but every Maven update changes it back to the value as stored in the effective pom:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-site-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;3.3&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;executions&gt;
            &lt;execution&gt;
              &lt;id&gt;default-site&lt;/id&gt;
              &lt;phase&gt;site&lt;/phase&gt;
              &lt;goals&gt;
                &lt;goal&gt;site&lt;/goal&gt;
              &lt;/goals&gt;
              &lt;configuration&gt;
                &lt;outputDirectory&gt;E:\java\&lt;project&gt;\&lt;project&gt;-parent\&lt;project&gt;-web-server\target\site&lt;/outputDirectory&gt;
                &lt;reportPlugins&gt;
                  &lt;reportPlugin&gt;
                    &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
                    &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-project-info-reports-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;/reportPlugin&gt;
                &lt;/reportPlugins&gt;
              &lt;/configuration&gt;
            &lt;/execution&gt;
          &lt;!-- .... --&gt;
   &lt;/plugin&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The file is not editable and I don't really know how this file gets generated and/or how to change it. How can I manipulate the values in the effective pom file?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Another thing you've already noticed are those absolute paths I'd like to get rid of. So as a side-quest: How would I do that? </p>