Is there a way to see which Project Wizard was used to create a given Eclipse Project?

Question

Every time I start working on a new J2EE web application, I need to create the various Eclipse projects that I'll fill up. This includes the top-level project that generates the EAR, a WAR project, etc. I usually only have to do this every couple of months, so I never remember the exact steps - specifically, which Eclipse Project Wizards to use for each project in the webapp.

I have enough old J2EE projects laying around that they could serve as good reference if only I could actually see which Wizard created them. Is there a way to recover this information?

Answer 1

I don't think it is possible.

What I would suggest is to use Maven. It has archetypes to automatically create specific types of projects. It is even easier in Eclipse with m2eclipse plugin. Take a look here

Answer 2

I don't think that information is stored anywhere.

However you can look at the .project xml file that every project has in Eclipse. You want to look at the <natures> element specifically, that will give you a hint of what type of project you want to create.

Answer 3

The best system I found since asking this is to look at a project's facets. If needed I can compare an existing Eclipse project to a newly created one from the wizard; if the facets are identical, then I've (re)found the right wizard.