Hello,
I use the eclipse plug in to generate the .classpath and .project files.
These work fine for all my submodules, but it doesn't generate these
files for the top module.
How can I generate a .classpath file for the top project that contains
all source-folders and dependencies of the submodules?
Regards,
Ingo
It's not possible to do this because this winds up with nested source
directories and/or nested eclipse project folders, and eclipse will not
allow it.
I agree that this is very annoying in eclipse: it seems to me as of now
that if you have a parent POM project then you are unable to ever mount
that in eclipse. I don't know a thing about eclipse project structure
or anything relevant. I will mention that the Maven 2 module that plugs
into Netbeans will handle this. And that plugin works seemingly nicely:
you can simply open any POM folder in NetBeans as a project, and the IDE
does not generate any of its own files -- no .netbeans folder or
anything. The downside is that that plugin is riddled with odd
problems: I can't "run file" or "compile single", and it always
regurgitates the POM with your comments removed and with arbitrary
formatting. So to me it's less ergonomic in the end than eclipse is --
since you have to edit the POM by hand for a lot of things the plugin
doesn't support, but it keeps on reformatting everything on you.
Let me know if some of that didn't make sense! And tell me if you
experience the same thing.
Good luck,
Steev Coco.
