The source hierarchy for your code may be complex. For example, suppose the source hierarchy looks like this:
Example of a source tree hierarchy.
To work efficiently with this source in the IDE, each component and subcomponent should be a project. (You could keep an entire hierarchy as a single project if you wish, but you'd probably find it cumbersome to build and work with such a monolith.)
To import such a source tree, you would use the following process:
- Step 1: Creating a project for your source code: Creating an initial project for your source code
- Step 2: Creating a new project for each existing project or component in your source code tree: Creating a new project for each existing project or component in your source code tree
- Step 3: Linking the projects to a directory in the source tree: Linking the projects to a directory in the source tree
- Step 4: Building the component project in the linked folder: Building the component project in the linked folder
For information about container projects, see Using container projects in this chapter.