[news.eclipse.newcomer] Automatically add project to workspace

[Andreas Fester <Andreas.Fester@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am trying to migrate our proprietary build system to Eclipse.
We have a structure where one source tree contains many packages which
result in different jar files.
Creating appropriate sub directories within the workspace directory 
for each project with the proper .classpath and .project files seems 
easy, because they are XML and can easily be created from our proprietary
build description.

But: How can the projects then be added to the workspace? The only way
I found was to import each of the different projects manually. Because
our source is divided into many small sub projects (about 70), this
does not really make sense :-( It seems that Eclipse stores information
about the projects which are part of a workspace in some binary files.

So, is there any way to automatically import a large number of projects
into a workspace?

Thanks & best Regards,

        Andreas