Some Eclipse Foundation services are deprecated, or will be soon. Please ensure you've read this important communication.

Bug 24760

Summary: Convert to Java project
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jed Anderson <jed.anderson>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: jhecking, martinae
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description Jed Anderson CLA 2002-10-14 15:47:09 EDT 
I've talked with a few folks on #eclipse about migrating projects they have created in other IDEs 
into Eclipse.  The problem is that they import a project using CVS, but it does not contain a 
.project file.  So the project is not recognized as a Java project.

It would be helpful for them 
if we had a "Convert to Java project" option somewhere similar to the "Convert to PDE project" we 
currently have.

However, using this approache everybody would end up contributing a 
"Convert to X" menu item.  So I don't have a good solution.  Other ideas?
Comment 1 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2002-10-15 10:37:46 EDT 
The original idea was that you can check/uncheck natures (a.k.a. 'capabilities')
on the project's property page.
I don't know whats the state of capabilities is. I hope they are still on the 
2.1 plan.

Moving to Platform-UI.
Comment 2 miojo CLA 2004-03-30 14:49:13 EST 
I'm sure this would be a nice enhancement. BTW, lots of people are coming from 
other IDEs to the Eclipse World.

What's the problem with some menu named "Convert to Java Project"?
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-08-05 11:36:16 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102527 ***