Adds eclipse settings files to set correct encoding and complier preferences

This is done in the maven-eclipse-plugin so now all eclipse files are generated by mV eclipse:eclipse and can safely be ignored

.gitignore

@@ -16,21 +16,18 @@ docs/build.log
 backwards/
 
 ## eclipse ignores (use 'mvn eclipse:eclipse' to build eclipse projects)
-## The only configuration files which are not ignored are certain files in
-## .settings (as listed below) since these files ensure common coding 
-## style across Eclipse and IDEA.
-## Other files (.project, .classpath) should be generated through Maven which
-## will correctly set the classpath based on the declared dependencies.
+## All files (.project, .classpath, .settings/*) should be generated through Maven which
+## will correctly set the classpath based on the declared dependencies and write settings 
+## files to ensure common coding style across Eclipse and IDEA.
 .project
 .classpath
+/.settings
 eclipse-build
 */.project
 */.classpath
 */eclipse-build
-/.settings/
-!/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
-!/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
-!/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs
+*/.settings
+plugins/*/.settings
 
 ## netbeans ignores
 nb-configuration.xml