[News.eclipse.foundation] Eclipse Projects

[mwood@xxxxxxx (MIke)]

I need some help migrating our Java projects from JBuilder to Eclipse as 
part of an evaluation. We have an existing structure that works very well 
for us using ant and JBuilder but I can't understand how to get Eclipse to 
integrate with it.

I have read the user's guide, read the FAQs, and tried the plugins to no 
avail. Maybe someone has an idea that will help.

Our projects are comprised of an in-house framework + applications which 
reside in the same source code tree. The framework is shared across 5 
different released products. The source code root looks like this:

src/com/api/

frome there it is separated into:
com/api/applications/             // all applications resides here
com/api/applications/app1/   // code for product "app1"
com/api/applications/app2/   // code for product "app2"

and our framework (small subset):
com/api/framework
com/api/framework/image  // framework code associated with images
com/api/framework/util      // utility code

Our framework is build as a project distributed as one or more jars files 
and our application is build and released as separate  jar file.

We create two projects for each application
- Application project which only includes the application sub-package: 
com.api.application.app1 - used by ant script for building release 
- Development project which includes application package + framework - 
used by developer (doesn't use jar files, just classes)

I have failed to figure out how to get Eclipse to recognise and build only 
a subset of packages (or files). When I create a project and ask it to 
import code or I define the source code location it wants to pull in 
EVERYTHING with no options for excluding items.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you,

Mike