[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Opening an existing project from workspace

[malcom@xxxxxxxxxxx (Marcus Malcom)]

Manoj wrote:

> Hi,

> I am constantly seeing this problem. On many occasions when I check out a
> project from CVS to my workspace, it does not appear on my view, although
> it is checked out successfully. Since I am not able to locate an option to
> open an existing project from workspace (the Project->Open Project option
> is disabled for some reason), I want to know how to get this project in
> the package explorer view in the Java perspective ?

> Thanks in advance.

this might help:

http://dev.eclipse.org:8080/help/content/help:/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-96.htm

Also, if the project contains the .project/.classpath/.etc files then all
you need to do is create a new Java project and the settings will be
picked up and not overwritten. This only works if there is not a project
with that same name, which could be the case if a project is checked out
from CVS and is really a Simple project (when what you really wanted was a
java project). In that case you'll need to delete the simple project (make
sure you don't delete the files) and then re-create the java project.

Note: CVS integration allows a "Check out as ..." option and is probably
what you want here.

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marcus