diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b4d7c404b42..4df3b52391b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -883,6 +883,26 @@
                         </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
                     </configuration>
                 </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <additionalConfig>
+                            <file>
+                                <name>.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs</name>
+                                <location>src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs</location>
+                            </file>
+                            <file>
+                                <name>.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs</name>
+                                <location>src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs</location>
+                            </file>
+                            <file>
+                                <name>.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs</name>
+                                <location>src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs</location>
+                            </file>
+                        </additionalConfig>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
     </build>
diff --git a/src/eclipse/README b/src/eclipse/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee4874d2311
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/eclipse/README
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Eclipse configuration files
+
+You can use them by running
+  mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
+and importing the project into Eclipse (File > Import > Existing Project into
+workspace) or refreshing it (F5) if you already imported it.
diff --git a/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs b/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99f26c0203a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+encoding/<project>=UTF-8
diff --git a/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a35498a9916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+# We target Java 1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.targetPlatform=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.6
+# Lines should be splitted at 140 chars
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.lineSplit=140
+# Indentation is 4 spaces
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.tabulation.char=space
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.formatter.tabulation.size=4
diff --git a/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs b/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0856eebe16b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/eclipse/dot.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+formatter_settings_version=12
+# Intellij IDEA import rules
+org.eclipse.jdt.ui.importorder=;java;javax;\#;
+org.eclipse.jdt.ui.ondemandthreshold=5
+org.eclipse.jdt.ui.staticondemandthreshold=3
+# License header
+org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.custom_code_templates=<?xml version\="1.0" encoding\="UTF-8" standalone\="no"?><templates><template autoinsert\="false" context\="gettercomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for getter method" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.gettercomment" name\="gettercomment">/**\n *\n */</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="settercomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for setter method" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.settercomment" name\="settercomment">/**\n *\n */</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="constructorcomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for created constructors" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.constructorcomment" name\="constructorcomment">/**\n * ${tags}\n */</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="filecomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for created Java files" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.filecomment" name\="filecomment">/**\n *\n */</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="typecomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for created types" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.typecomment" name\="typecomment">/**\n *\n */</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="fieldcomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for fields" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.fieldcomment" name\="fieldcomment">/**\n *\n */</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="methodcomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for non-overriding methods" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.methodcomment" name\="methodcomment">/**\n * ${tags}\n */</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="overridecomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for overriding methods" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.overridecomment" name\="overridecomment">/*\n *\n */</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="delegatecomment_context" deleted\="false" description\="Comment for delegate methods" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.delegatecomment" name\="delegatecomment">/**\n * ${tags}\n * ${see_to_target}\n */</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="newtype_context" deleted\="false" description\="Newly created files" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.newtype" name\="newtype">${filecomment}\n/*\n * Licensed to ElasticSearch and Shay Banon under one\n * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file\n * distributed with this work for additional information\n * regarding copyright ownership. ElasticSearch licenses this\n * file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the\n * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance\n * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at\n *\n *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\n *\n * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,\n * software distributed under the License is distributed on an\n * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY\n * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the\n * specific language governing permissions and limitations\n * under the License.\n */\n\n${package_declaration}\n\n${typecomment}\n${type_declaration}</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="classbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in new class type bodies" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.classbody" name\="classbody">\n</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="interfacebody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in new interface type bodies" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.interfacebody" name\="interfacebody">\n</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="enumbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in new enum type bodies" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.enumbody" name\="enumbody">\n</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="annotationbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in new annotation type bodies" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.annotationbody" name\="annotationbody">\n</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="catchblock_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in new catch blocks" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.catchblock" name\="catchblock">throw new RuntimeException();</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="methodbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in created method stubs" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.methodbody" name\="methodbody">${body_statement}</template><template autoinsert\="false" context\="constructorbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in created constructor stubs" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.constructorbody" name\="constructorbody">${body_statement}</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="getterbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in created getters" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.getterbody" name\="getterbody">return ${field};</template><template autoinsert\="true" context\="setterbody_context" deleted\="false" description\="Code in created setters" enabled\="true" id\="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.codetemplates.setterbody" name\="setterbody">${field} \= ${param};</template></templates>