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My setup : eclipse 2.1.2 (started with -data D:\Projects)
MyEclipse 020700RC2.
I just start using MyEclipse and what I want is having all project modules under the same root directory. So let say I want to create a new project “foo”, with EAR project “foo_eap”, web project “foo_web”, and ejb project “foo_ejb”. On my harddisk, I want to have the following directory structure:
D:\Projects\foo
D:\Projects\foo\foo_eap
D:\Projects\foo\foo_web
D:\Projects\foo\foo_ejb

I created “foo” directory under D:\Projects, then try to create foo_eap project in MyEclipse project creation wizards. In the “New Enterprise Application Project” popup window, I entered foo_eap in the “Project Name” field, if the “Use Default Location” checkbox is checked, MyEclipse will use D:\Projects\foo_eap directory, which is not what I wanted. If I unchecked it, then enter D:\Projects\foo\foo_eap, then it won’t allow me to do that. I got the message “Project contents cannot be inside workspace directory”, and the Next and Finish buttons were disabled.

How can I get around this? I don’t want to start eclipse with “-data D:\Projects”, then create my projects outside of that directory.
Thanks for your help.

[support-michael]

Eclipse (not MyEclipse) restricts projects created in the workspace to be direct subdirectories of the workspace directory, i.e., <myworkspace>/foo_eap. Thus, Eclipse is prohibiting your action to create <myworkspace>/foo/foo_eap. Consider dropping use of the -data option which points to the workspace of your Eclipse/MyEclipse instance and you should be able to create a project directory hierarchy …/foo/foo_eap.

Michael
MyEclipse Support

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