eclipsehelios

How to move an eclipse (helios) project to a different workspace?


First, Eclipse is not my native IDE -- I'm barely a n00b with it. I set up a project in a workspace that was actually in the directory of another client's project (I didn't really follow the whole workspace/project thing) and, in fact, now I can't even find the Eclipse workspace file to open it.

What I'd like to do is:

(Is that the right way to do it? Does Eclipse dislike me being a one-project == one-workspace kind of guy?)

Please educate me regarding The Eclipse Way so that I can get back to work writing code.

Thanks!


Solution

  • Roughly a workspace (which is a directory) in Eclipse contains:

    You can of course have as many workspaces as you want (but only one can be opened at a time) and a project can also be part of different workspaces.

    If you know where your sources are and want to move them to a new workspace here is a possible solution:

    I don't know if it's a best practice or not but what I usually do is the following:

    This way each time I change my commons library it's up to date in every workspace.