[news.eclipse.newcomer] Eclipse + svn/subclipse + apache dir structure

["Chris Gates" <chrisg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

We've got a few java projects submitted to svn which have dependancies on
each other. These projects are built in an apache directory structure with
src/build/resources/dist folders and an ant build file at the root.

If I checkout the whole trunk of the svn, which includes all the projects
into Eclipse, then the ant scripts run fine, and projects can compile etc.
However, none of the projects seem to be registered as Java projects, and
therefore none of the editing tools work such as code completion, the '.'
notation to access methods etc, or finding the declarations of objects etc.

After doing some searching, i checked out each project individually into the
workspace, and i checked them out as Java projects. This also allowed me to
set the src and build paths to the correct ones in the file structure.

This now allows me to edit them like normal java projects using standard ide
tools.

However, I now dont have the common ant build file in the root folder, which 
is referenced by each of the projects, therefore ant doesnt work.

Has anyone been able to set up eclipse with this kind of file structure, but 
still treat each individual project folder as a java project?

I guess what i need is to be able to have "sub-projects" under a main 
'trunk' project.

Any help is appreciated!!

Chris