How to copy multiple projects into single folder in eclipse

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venu picture venu · Nov 13, 2009 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I have two projects, Project1 and Project2.

Now i want to copy this projects into eclipse workspace but i want these projects to be in a single folder like below.

Eclipse Workspace -> Project -> Project1, Project2

i.e Project1 and Project2 should be in folder Project in Workspace folder.

How to do this in eclipse?

Answer

Mark Elliot picture Mark Elliot · Nov 13, 2009

Take a look at working sets.

In Eclipse, Working Sets provide a convenient way to collect projects together into a sort of holding-folder. This folder exists only in some "meta" sense, and single projects can belong to multiple working sets.

The link above shows a video of these in action. I had been looking for convenient way to collect projects together to ease my searching for specific projects in large workspaces and have found this small bit of organization helps quite a bit.

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