[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Two external java projects in the same dir t

["Uwe Peuker" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is the default behaviour.
We have usually have organized projects with submoduls in the tree like 
yours in a CVS repository (there are also pkugins for Subversion and other 
Source control systems). From there you can check out every single modul 
into a java project in eclipse.

Uwe

"Florian Brucker" <torf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> I'm just starting to use Eclipse and I'm now trying to import all my
> existing projects. In the past, I've organized *all* my java sources in
> one source tree, which reflects the package hierarchy. So it looks like
> that:
>
> somedir/
>    com/
>        torfbold/
>            project1/
>                ...
>            project2/
>                ...
>    org/
>        imp/
>            project3
>                ...
>
> My goal is to have one Eclipse-project for each of those projects in the
> source-tree. I started with importing project1: To get the packages
> right, I choose "somedir" as directory to import from, and excluded
> directories other than those of project1. That worked fine.
> But when I know try to import project2 the same way, I only get the
> message "somedir/com and somedir/com overlap", and I'm not allowed to
> proceed any further.
>
> Am I only allowed to create projects which don't share directories?
>
> Any tips on how to solve the problem are appreciated.
>
> Greetings,
> Florian