I inherited a java project and don\'t have much experience with Eclipse. In the package explorer I can see the outline of the project with all the classes but when I try to
Right click on the project in the Package Explorer view and select Refresh.
You can right click on the project name and click refresh. And just to be sure, you can select the package name and right click 'Refresh' too.
If using maven or other builder be sure that you disable the plug ins some plug ins, specially the ones meant to generate/change code will never let you be fully on sync
By default, 'F5' on a highlighted resource will also refresh it.
Click on the project, then press F5 to refresh the file. It should be fine.