Is it possible to group projects in eclipse?

Question

Hi, is it possible to group projects in eclipse? Or maybe have a project with sub-projects?

Answer 1

Eclipse offers working sets. You can reduce the projects shown in the Package Explorer and other places to whichever projects you defined into the working set. You can also show the union of various sets, and similar gymnastics.

You can define/edit/delete working sets from the little triangle dropdown menu on the Package Explorer and similar directory views.

Edit: Nicely explained here: http://www.alagad.com/blog/post.cfm/using-eclipse-working-sets-instead-of-workspaces

Answer 2

What about eclipse working sets? You define a working set and then add some projects to it. Later you could select a working set and only the projects you selected earlier are shown in project explorer. Simpl grouping to reduce clutter.

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/concepts/cworkset.htm

Answer 3

You have two options, as far as I know:

1. use the already suggested Working Set option: you can create custom groups, use them to focus on a particular area of a project, activate them through Mylin; a really powerful tool indeed

2. use the basic concept of workspace which allows you to work on many projects and relate them (via the Build path "Projects" tab, and "Java EE Module Dependencies") so that when you need resources from other projects or you need to deploy them along with your main web application Eclipse will do that for you