Why “no projects found to import”?

Question

I am trying to \"import existing project into workspace\". As the \"root directory\" I select the directory where all my .java (and .class) files are located. Eclipse writes

Answer 1

Eclipse is looking for eclipse projects, meaning its is searching for eclipse-specific files in the root directory, namely .project and .classpath. You either gave Eclipse the wrong directory (if you are importing a eclipse project) or you actually want to create a new project from existing source(new->java project->create project from existing source).

I think you probably want the second one, because Eclipse projects usually have separate source & build directories. If your sources and .class files are in the same directory, you probably didn't have a eclipse project.