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How to successfully use an existing workspace in multiple versions of eclipse? [message #1243073]

Mon, 10 February 2014 08:29

Eclipse User

I am working on a large project where there are multiple eclipse-based IDEs that are used for different (but overlapping) tasks. For example, we use an eclipse-based IDE to develop business rules, and a different eclipse-based IDE for version control. The versions of eclipse may vary from one IDE to another, and the loaded plug-ins may also.

Based on painful experience, I'm pretty sure that directly using the same workspace from multiple versions of eclipse is a bad idea, because the metadata may be vastly different/incompatible.

Is the best way to "reuse" a workspace to create a new workspace, and then import the old workspace's projects to the new workspace? If so, that implies that any updates to one need to be duplicated for the other. Is there another, better way?

Re: How to successfully use an existing workspace in multiple versions of eclipse? [message #1243124 is a reply to message #1243073]

Mon, 10 February 2014 09:49

Eclipse User

Don't use the same workspace. Projects can exist outside of workspaces and if you are sharing the projects you should leave them outside of your workspace. You can then have a separate workspace for each version of Eclipse. Each workspace can point to the same projects.

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