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Bug 147630

Summary:	allow for a hierarchy of projects
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andreas Schildbach <andreas>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Andreas Schildbach

2006-06-18 02:11:28 EDT

I'd like to be able to organize projects hierarchically. For example:

workspace
|
+- P
   |
   +- A
   |
   +- B

P, A and B would be projects that have their own .project, .classpath (in case of a Java project) and so on. There is only one speciality with hierarchical rather than flat layouts: Contents of A and B cannot be referenced from P directly, only by a declared project dependency or maybe by an external dependency.

The reason I am asking for this is because Maven2 suggests this structure, with a parent project containing a parent POM. This is currently not possible with Eclipse, leading to awkward workarounds. Also, I'd like to be able to checkout P from a repository (including A and B) and then issue commits or updates on P (again, including A and B).

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2006-06-19 10:20:15 EDT

You can lay out projects hierarchically on disk, but there is currently no notion of projects within projects in the workspace.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35973 ***