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How do you organize 100+ projects in Eclipse?

When you have 5+ languages and 100+ projects, IMO the default of using one workspace is not acceptable because the one workspace becomes horribly disorganized. Having one huge unorganized workspace lowers your productivity.

The question:

What are the more advanced ways of using Eclipse when you have 5+ languages and 100+ projects? I would really appreciate advice that elaborates a little bit more than just giving one sentence like "use multiple workspaces" or "use working sets".

"Must have" requirements:

  • The project navigator only shows related projects (like only projects from abc language or only projects from xyz language)
  • The described method is currently being used by you or someone you know and has been used for more than two weeks

"Would like" requirements:

  • the ability to be able to have projects with the same name (like "helloworld" for language xyz and "helloworld" for language abc)

(Side note:

FYI, one of the reasons for asking on SO.com is because I have searched enough on Google to know that there are LOTS of people who have the same "Help my Eclipse workspace is out of control" problem. )

Solution

  • If these projects are completely independent from each other, I would create separate workspaces, one workspace for each set of projects that are connected and cannot be built on their own. Is there a reason you don't want to split to multiple workspaces? I'm pretty sure this is how Eclipse was intended to be used in this case. I've done it many times and find it to be a good solution.