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Importing ProjectTemplate

Follow these steps to import the ProjectTemplate project (or any other project) into your workspace from either a .zip archive or a directory on your hard disk.

First download the project template, ProjectTemplate.zip, to your computer. Click on this download link and save the file somewhere on your hard drive where you can easily find it. Make sure you name it ProjectTemplate.zip and that you do not expand this archive. (If your browser automatically expands downloaded zip archives, that's OK too. Just pay attention to the special instructions in the following few steps.) You may want to make a note of where you saved it.

  1. Start by importing into Eclipse the project template. From the File menu select Import...

    Thumbnail for Screenshot057.png File menu open in Eclipse with the Import... menu item highlighted; select Import to begin importing a project into the workspace

  2. In the new window, expand General and select Existing Projects into Workspace. Click Next.

    Thumbnail for Screenshot058.png Import Projects dialog in Eclipse with the Select archive file radio button highlighted

  3. Click on the radio button next to Select archive file and then click the Browse... button. (If your browser expanded the ProjectTemplate.zip archive into a ProjectTemplate directory, leave the Select root directory radio button selected instead.)

    Thumbnail for Screenshot059.png Eclipse Import Projects dialog with the Select archive file radio button selected and the Browse... button highlighted. The dialog shows a labeled field Archive file with a file path and a Browse... button to choose a zip, and action buttons OK and Cancel are visible. The dialog is overlaid on the Eclipse IDE window;

  4. In the file selection window, find the ProjectTemplate.zip file and select it. (If your browser expanded the ProjectTemplate.zip archive into a ProjectTemplate directory, find the ProjectTemplate directory instead.) Click OK.

    Thumbnail for Screenshot060.png Eclipse Import Projects dialog showing the Select archive file radio button selected and the Archive file field populated with a path to ProjectTemplate. zip; Browse, OK, and Cancel buttons are visible.

  5. Click Finish.

    Thumbnail for Screenshot061.png Eclipse Import Projects dialog with the Finish button highlighted.

  6. The project template is imported into Eclipse and appears as a new project called ProjectTemplate in the Package Explorer view. You can expand a few entries to see what kind of structure the new project has.

    Thumbnail for Screenshot062.png Eclipse Package Explorer view showing the imported ProjectTemplate project.