How do I change a Java project's bin folder in Eclipse?

Question

When you have a Java project in Eclipse, how do you change the location where the class files are placed? The bin directory is the default location.

Answer 1

I would like to describe an approach below.

First, create a new empty project locally in eclipse work space for storing generated output files say output_bin.

As mentioned in above steps, now from Default Output Folder we need a new Variable to link to our project output folder.

1. Default Output Folder -> Browse -> Create New Folder...
2. -> Advance -> check "Link to folder in the file system" ->
3. Variables -> New.. -> Name = PROJECT_OUT, Location = "CHOOSE_PATH_TO\output_bin\bin\Project1bin" -> Ok

Note: Project1bin is a new directory which stores the bin folder. output_bin is an empty project and you can have multiple bin folder for various projects.