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Sheljith krishnan
Sheljith krishnan

Reputation: 345

How to identify project type from project folder

Recently i have received a project as a zip. I have unzipped and now i want to import the same in eclipse. But am unable to identify what type of project(maven, java, gradle, etc) it is. I have tried importing as existing project into work-space. But its not identifying as a project when searching in eclipse.

For maven projects, it will have a pom.xml, this one don't have one. Similarly is there any other ways to identify what type of project it is from the project folder?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4608

Answers (1)

Sheljith krishnan
Sheljith krishnan

Reputation: 345

I have received partial answer from the commends of @Sangeeta and @carchingUp. I want to add all details to a single answer so that it will be helpful to others.

Inputs from Sangeeta: if pom.xml is present you can infer its a maven project. If build.sbt, then its an sbt project. If build.gradle, You can know its a gradle project and build.xml for ant projects

In my case i was having build.xml from which we can identify as ant project.

When you import the project as ant project to eclipse and if you have the below scenario, "package name is com.abc.xyz, present in src/main/java and when importing as ant project, main.java.com.abc.xyz becomes the project and am getting error for all the java files for package name mismatch", follow the below steps.

  1. right click the src folder >build path >remove from build path
  2. right click the java folder > build path > use as source folder.

Upvotes: 1

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