Nested projects and project folders in Eclipse

Question

Maven allows parent-child relationship between projects. By default, parent project is expected locating in parent folder.

Is it possible to adopt this structure to Eclipse?

Currently I have imported all folders separately as project with sources without copying and consequently have separate nodes for each project in Package Explorer.

Unfortunately it causes various glitches including EGit functionning.

Answer 1

Eclipse 4.5 (starting from Mars M5) will include a mechanism that allows to nested projects under their parent one. You can already give it a try by accessing the latest snapshot build of Eclipse Platform (which is a subset of the IDE, but which contains the change) http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/N20150124-1500/ , when Mars M5 is ready, you'll be able to access from http://eclipse.org/downloads a full featured IDE which also contains this feature.

Reference https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=427768