Programmatically generate an Eclipse project

Question

I use eclipse to work on an application which was originally created independently of eclipse. As such, the application\'s directory structure is decidedly not eclipse-frie

Answer 1

You should be able to accomplish this by writing a small Eclipse plugin. You could even extend it out to being a "headless" RCP app, and pass in the command line arguments you need.

The barebones code to create a project is:

IProgressMonitor progressMonitor = new NullProgressMonitor();
IWorkspaceRoot root = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot();
IProject project = root.getProject("DesiredProjectName");
project.create(progressMonitor);
project.open(progressMonitor);

Just take a look at the eclipse code for the Import Project wizard to give you a better idea of where to go with it.

Answer 2

Use AntEclipse

It can create eclipse projects from ant.

Answer 3

To create java project you can use JavaCore from org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore. As a sourceProject you can use generic project item, which has been suggested by @James Van Huis

IJavaProject javaSourceProject = JavaCore.create(sourceProject);