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

[Marie Tessier <marie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Play around with drag & drop.  Dragging files from the gui file manager 
of your choice into the graphical file tree in Eclipse does a 
surprisingly good job of automating many tasks.  Try it with one of the 
files/folders involved just to test, then if it works you can select all 
of the projects involved and drag and drop in one motion.  I'm not 
positive this will work, but you can give it a try.

Marie


Andreas Fester wrote:
> 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