Create Eclipse java project with a java programm

Question

I would like to generate Eclipse Java Project with my Java program. When I click a button: it will generate an eclipse project with the parameters I specified (source path, library, ...)

My questions are:

• is there a way to do that ? and how ? (api).

• it is possible to generate Net-beans project too ?

Best regards,

Florent

Answer 1

Maven enables this and many more things around creating, bulding, testing and developing Java projects.

Create a Java project from command line. Then, using Maven create NetBeans, Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA specific project files. Or even easier, just import already created Maven project directly from these IDEs.

Answer 2

Create Java Project in Eclipse first. Then look into directory created. You should find there two files: .project and .classpath. These are the files you should create in your app to get what you want.