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| − | In release 2.1, Eclipse introduced the notion of <i>linked resources</i> to help deal
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| − | with problems like this. Linked resources can refer to files or folders anywhere in
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| − | cobble together a project from files and folders that are scattered all over your
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| − | file system. The link descriptions are stored in the file called <tt>.project</tt>
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| − | inside your project content area. If you share this file with a repository, other users
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| − | in their workspace. If you do not want to hard-code particular file system paths,
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| − | you can define linked resources relative to workspace path variables. Path variables
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| − | For more information on using linked resources, see the good general introduction
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| − | in the <i>Workbench User Guide</i>, under '''Concepts > Workbench > Linked resources'''.
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| − | The <i>Java Development User Guide</i> also has an excellent tutorial that helps you get started
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| − | with various types of project configurations. Look under '''Getting Started >
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| − | Project configuration tutorial'''. Information on how to define linked resources
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| − | programmatically is found in the <i>Platform Plug-in Developer Guide</i>, under
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| − | '''Programmer’s Guide > Resource and workspace API > Linked Resources'''.
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| − | <hr><font size=-2>This FAQ was originally published in [http://www.eclipsefaq.org Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs]. Copyright 2004, Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. This text is made available here under the terms of the [http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html Eclipse Public License v1.0].</font>
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