Question

I read this article which shows how to import/export projects in Eclipse (although it seems a little outdated and I’m using 3.7 Indigo).

To export a project, you go to File >> Export and it creates some kind of “project archive” file on the local file system. You could then email it to someone else, who could then import the archive as a new project or into an existing project.

But what if you don’t have an “archive” file to begin with?!? What if you just have the project files and directories but without all the Eclipse-metatdata (.project file, etc.)? Is there anyway to tell Eclipse to look at, say:

/home/myuser/some/path/to/project/root/
    src/main/java
        SomeObject.java
    build.xml

…and get it to read that as a new Java project?

Answer 1

Try the steps below:

1. Create a Java Project in Eclipse as below:

   

   

2. Load the project contents from your file system as below:

   

   

Hope this works for you.