Description Gunnar Wagenknecht 2002-01-30 14:43:04 EST

It would be nice to have a general availability to add source directories to a 
project which are outside the project root.

I'm working with a extensive application environment that brings customized 
compile/make scripts with it. Please have a look at the following structure.

X:\Application - main Directory of the Application
X:\Application\src\Component_1\javasource
X:\Application\src\Component_2\javasource
X:\Application\src\Component_3\javasource
[...]
X:\Application\src\Component_N\javasource

It would be very usefull if I can add these source directorys to a Eclipse 
project without having to set the Eclipse project root to "X:\Application" 
because it is not a clean procedure to put Eclipse stuff into the directory of 
an application.

Also I would be nice to have another good advantage. I don't know how it's 
already implemented in Eclipse because I couldn't test it.

Eclipse should then merge the directory content "virtually" and should display 
packages belonging together as one "package" like the JVM does.

Example:

At "X:\Application\src\Component_1\javasource" there is package 
structure "com.company.product.component1" and 
at "X:\Application\src\Component_2\javasource" there 
is "com.company.product.component2".

Eclipse should merge them and should display "com.component.product" as 
expandable package name if there are no classes under "com.company.product". So 
I don't even have to expand "com" then expand "company" then 
expand "product" ...