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- What you've done in this Combined Approach is basically "trick" Eclipse into allowing you to have projects within projects. In addition, Eclipse has not created folders in the normal workspace for any of this DSpace 1.5 code. Rather, it is just referencing the code in the location where you first checked it out via SVN.
- Because you have "tricked" it, Eclipse may not always refresh your DSpace 1.5 projects properly after a rebuild/update. This is easily fixed by manually selecting all the projects, Right-clicking and choosing "Refresh"
Hints/Tips:
- If you want, you can run
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- multiple versions of DSpace 1.5.x (or above) side-by-side in your Eclipse workspace.
- To do so, you first must rename*all* of your existing DSpace 1.5.x projects (since Eclipse doesn't allow two projects of the same name). Right click on the project and select "Refactor -> Rename". Don't worry, this will not change the names of the folders on your filesystem (so Maven will still work perfectly).
- e.g. Rename
dspace-apiproject todspace-api-1.5alpha(for the 1.5alpha version of this project).
- e.g. Rename
- After renaming all of your existing DSpace 1.5.x projects, you can follow the directions for the The Combined Approach again to successfully checkout & import a different version of DSpace 1.5.x into the same Eclipse workspace.
- To do so, you first must rename*all* of your existing DSpace 1.5.x projects (since Eclipse doesn't allow two projects of the same name). Right click on the project and select "Refactor -> Rename". Don't worry, this will not change the names of the folders on your filesystem (so Maven will still work perfectly).
- Because of the number of DSpace 1.5 projects, you may want to change your Eclipse Package Explorer to display your projects as "Working Sets". This allows you to group similar projects together within a virtual "folder" in Eclipse.
- Click on the downward arrow in your "Package Explorer"
- Select "Configure Working Sets"
- Create a "New" working set and name it "DSpace 1.5" (or similar). Select all your DSpace 1.5 projects as its "contents"
- Ensure it is set to "visible" by placing a checkmark next to your new Working Set. Click "Ok" to save.
- Go back to the downward arrow in your "Package Explorer", and select "Top Level Elements -> Working Sets". Your Eclipse should now show a "DSpace 1.5" folder, which contains all your DSpace projects.
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