Question

I have a custom web application project, where project and webapp are Eclipse projects. Assume a structure like the following

/project
    /webapp
        /_src
            /com.webapp.servlets
            /com.webapp.domain
            /com.webapp.services

Now I want to create java command line based tool to simulate the operations of a servlet. It’s going to require classes from my domain package. I also need to split this command line application from the web application project. I would also need to extract those shared classes into another project as well.

I would like to have this type of structure

    /project
        /webapp
            /_src
                /com.webapp.servlets                 
                /com.webapp.services
        /commandline
             /_src
                 /com.commandline.simulation
        /shared
             /_src
                /com.webapp.domain

How can I achieve this nested project structure with shared resources in Eclipse (Indigo)?

Answer 1

This was pretty simple. Create a new folder in your root project project. Then Create a Java Project but don’t use default location, use the new folder you created. This will create a new entry in your project explorer, but on the file system you will have nested projects.

In projects that require resources from other projects just configure the build path by adding the projects you need,