What is wrong with IDEs?

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mikharakiri_nospaum@yahoo.com - 03 Apr 2006 17:15 GMT

I'm trying to migrate my java stuff from JDeveloper to Eclipse for a
week now. I understand that it's very easy to start creating new stuff
with all those wizards, but how do I organize my stuff that worked in
different IDE into Eclipse easily? Is it the "Import" menu option that
is suppose to work somehow?

As a result of this venture it become clear that the concepts used by
IDEs are wrong. What is a project? A set of folders below a certain
ancestor? A unit of programmers work? Am I alone with the idea that my
work doesn't fit into "projects"? I just want a database of source
files with clever dependency organization. Can projects have an
overlapping set of files?

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Oliver Wong - 03 Apr 2006 19:09 GMT

> I'm trying to migrate my java stuff from JDeveloper to Eclipse for a
> week now. I understand that it's very easy to start creating new stuff
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> files with clever dependency organization. Can projects have an
> overlapping set of files?

If you just want a database of source files with clever dependency
organization, you could just create on big project and put all your files in
that same project.

- Oliver

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mikharakiri_nospaum@yahoo.com - 04 Apr 2006 01:41 GMT

> > I'm trying to migrate my java stuff from JDeveloper to Eclipse for a
> > week now. I understand that it's very easy to start creating new stuff
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> organization, you could just create on big project and put all your files in
> that same project.

Thanks for the comment. Was recreating classes by hand and copying and
pasting source code, until discovered that I cand drag and drop them
into packages in th epackage explorer. Not sure who is the laughing
stock: me or the tool.

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Paul Hamaker - 04 Apr 2006 08:47 GMT

Right-click project name, Build Path, Link additional source to
project, to edit sources where they are. To copy sources into a
project: right-click project name, Import, File system etc.

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Paul Hamaker, SEMM, teaching ICT since 1987
http://javalessons.com

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