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Bug 29893

Summary: [Import/Export] Export to File System should use one target directory for all packages
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Dan Nazario <dan_nazario>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: Tod_Creasey
Version: 2.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Dan Nazario CLA 2003-01-21 10:31:28 EST 
In our environment (and probably many others), we deploy a java application 
that is made up of many (Eclipse) java projects.  

In Visual Age for java, we could select many projects and export the class 
files to a common directory such as lib.  It appears from a review the bug 
reports that this used to be available in Eclipse and was removed.

IMO, this should not have been removed, but made an option on the Export/File 
System dialog.  I would ask that this be put back into Eclipse as an option to 
assist in deploying several projects at once.  

As things are now, it requires a lot of effort to export multiple projects and 
not end up with the project names (either by selecting at the package level, or 
doing a lot of copying outside of Eclipse when the export is complete).  Also 
we do not wish to use jar files.

Thanks Much!
Dan

For example:

If exporting Projects AAA, BBB, and DDD from Eclipse, I would like to be able 
to target the class files, including the package names, to one directory 
without the project names being included.  So if the target directory 
was "c:\apps\systemxyz\lib", I would end up with the following.
So I might end up with a directory structure that looks like:
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.aaa.package1
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.aaa.package2
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.bbb.package1
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.bbb.package2
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.ddd.package1
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.ddd.package2
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.bbb.package3
c:\apps\systemxyz\lib\com.bbb.package4
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2003-01-22 08:26:48 EST 
What you are after is a java aware export to file. Currently our export is 
only aware of java structure for jar files.
Comment 2 Dan Nazario CLA 2003-01-23 12:16:22 EST 
Yes, "Java aware" or perhaps a "Project Unaware" so as to make it not be a java 
only thing.  I could see it as an option to not include project names in the 
export directory structure.  Whether this has any application outside of Java, 
I'm not sure.
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-06-22 08:35:26 EDT 
There are currently no plans to work on this feature