Description Andy Blower 2002-01-25 05:06:53 EST

The project hierarchy in Eclipse is so closely tied with the filesystem to make 
view just a (limited) filesystem explorer. If you create a folder, it simply 
creates a directory on the disk.

My preference is usually to have all our common source files in one location on 
my disk and shared between projects to minimise version control synchronisation 
problems (we use vss so Eclipse can't help) whilst the files I amn currently 
working on & project specific code I keep in a specific project folder. This 
works because in the IDE's I have used up til now, a project is not just a 
directory in the file system, but a 'virtual' organisation of project files.

So, you can add a folder and put source files from many separate locations 
within the filesystem into it without requiring many copies of the source files.

This is a feature I would like to see in Eclipse so I could recommend it as a 
standard IDE here. My appologies if this feature already exists in Eclipse - I 
was not able to find it.