diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/eclipse/EclipsePlugin.java b/maven-plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/eclipse/EclipsePlugin.java
index 066a346311..7a5b97e9a9 100644
--- a/maven-plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/eclipse/EclipsePlugin.java
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/eclipse/EclipsePlugin.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  *
  * @goal eclipse
  * @requiresDependencyResolution test
- * @execute phase="generate-sources"
+ * @executePhase="generate-sources"
  *
  * @author <a href="mailto:trygvis@inamo.no">Trygve Laugst&oslash;l</a>
  * @version $Id$
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@ public class EclipsePlugin
     private MavenProject project;
 
     /**
-     * The project whose project files to create.
-     *
      * @parameter expression="${executedProject}"
-     * @required
      */
     private MavenProject executedProject;
 
@@ -94,6 +91,12 @@ public void execute()
         {
             eclipseWriter.setLocalRepositoryFile( new File ( localRepository.getBasedir() ) );
 
+            if ( executedProject == null )
+            {
+                // backwards compat with alpha-2 only
+                executedProject = project;
+            }
+
             eclipseWriter.write( project, executedProject );
         }
         catch ( EclipsePluginException e )
diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-idea-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/idea/IdeaMojo.java b/maven-plugins/maven-idea-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/idea/IdeaMojo.java
index 582b77d2d2..c8a3bfa9e0 100644
--- a/maven-plugins/maven-idea-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/idea/IdeaMojo.java
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-idea-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/idea/IdeaMojo.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  * Goal for generating IDEA files from a POM.
  *
  * @goal idea
- * @execute phase="generate-sources"
+ * @executePhase "generate-sources"
  * @requiresDependencyResolution test
  * @todo use dom4j or something. Xpp3Dom can't cope properly with entities and so on
  */
@@ -56,14 +56,18 @@ public class IdeaMojo
 
     /**
      * @parameter expression="${executedProject}"
-     * @required
-     * @readonly
      */
     private MavenProject executedProject;
 
     public void execute()
         throws MojoExecutionException
     {
+        if ( executedProject == null )
+        {
+            // backwards compat with alpha-2 only
+            executedProject = project;
+        }
+
         rewriteModule();
 
         rewriteProject();
diff --git a/maven-plugins/pom.xml b/maven-plugins/pom.xml
index 0a34b61596..b2d51e3154 100644
--- a/maven-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@
     <module>maven-clean-plugin</module>
     <module>maven-compiler-plugin</module>
     <module>maven-deploy-plugin</module>
-    <!-- Broken reference to ${executedProject} -->
-    <!-- module>maven-eclipse-plugin</module -->
+    <module>maven-eclipse-plugin</module>
     <module>maven-ejb-plugin</module>
     <module>maven-idea-plugin</module>
     <module>maven-install-plugin</module>