[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Import existing projects into my workspace

[Ian Darwin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Davis wrote:
> I want to get an existing project into my workspace. ( E.g. 
> http://ical4j.sourceforge.net ).
>
> So I naturally thought there was a way to do that with file import.  But 
> Eclipse has a paridigm I do not understand; i.e. the importing of the 
> project does not copy the project to my workspace. 

That is the intended behaviour; it tells you this in the Import dialog, 
as soon as you select "Existing Project into Workspace" (read the top 
line). But this doesn't really matter where the files are, as long as 
there is a Project created (parts of which are hidden, alas, in ugly 
binary files in the .metadata directory), then Eclipse is
able to work with the project nicely. I just did this for ical4j and 
Eclipse is happy with the project file (so we know that its .project 
file is not corrupted, as another poster suggested).

If you really want the project physically stored in your workspace, one 
way to do so is to check it out via anonymous CVS (I presume ical4j 
supports this; I think all SourceForge projects do). Either use Import->
Checkout Project from CVS or open the CVS Locations view.