diff --git a/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.import.prefs b/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.import.prefs
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--- a/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.import.prefs
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-#com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.preferences.GradleImportPreferences
-#Thu Aug  9 11:34:43 CEST 2012
-enableAfterTasks=true
-afterTasks=afterEclipseImport;
-enableDependendencyManagement=false
-enableBeforeTasks=true
-projects=;spring-aop;spring-aspects;spring-beans;spring-context;spring-context-support;spring-core;spring-expression;spring-instrument;spring-instrument-tomcat;spring-jdbc;spring-jms;spring-orm;spring-oxm;spring-struts;spring-test;spring-tx;spring-web;spring-webmvc;spring-webmvc-portlet;
-enableDSLD=false
-beforeTasks=cleanEclipse;eclipse;\:spring-oxm\:compileTestJava;
diff --git a/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.prefs b/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.prefs
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index 6512e77c55c..00000000000
--- a/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.prefs
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-#com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.preferences.GradleProjectPreferences
-#Tue Feb 21 14:38:31 CET 2012
-com.springsource.sts.gradle.classpath.enableSorting=false
-com.springsource.sts.gradle.rootprojectloc=
-com.springsource.sts.gradle.linkedresources=
diff --git a/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.refresh.prefs b/.settings/gradle/com.springsource.sts.gradle.refresh.prefs
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-#com.springsource.sts.gradle.core.actions.GradleRefreshPreferences
-#Thu Aug  9 11:34:43 CEST 2012
-enableAfterTasks=true
-afterTasks=afterEclipseImport;
-useHierarchicalNames=false
-enableBeforeTasks=true
-addResourceFilters=false
-enableDSLD=false
-beforeTasks=cleanEclipse;eclipse;\:spring-oxm\:compileTestJava;