# Project Explorer view

This view provides a hierarchical view of the artifacts in the Workbench, which is customized by the specific configuration of your Workbench.

A typical Project Explorer with only the Java Development Tools (JDT) installed looks similar to the Package Explorer:

To add the Project Explorer view to the current perspective, click Window > Show View > Other... > General > Project Explorer.

## Toolbar

### Collapse All

This command collapses the tree expansion state of all resources in the view.

### Link with Editor

This command toggles whether the Project Explorer selection is linked to the active editor. When this option is selected, changing the active editor will automatically update the Project Explorer selection to the resource being edited.

## Menus

Click the black upside-down triangle icon to open a menu of items specific to the Project Explorer. Right-click inside the view to open a context menu.

### Select Working Set

Opens the Select Working Set dialog to allow selecting a working set for the Project Explorer.

### Deselect Working Set

Deselects the current working set.

### Edit Active Working Set

Opens the Edit Working Set dialog to allow changing the current working set.

### Customize View

This command allows you to change the view for your specific needs. You may select filters to apply to the view so that you can show or hide various artifacts as needed. The default filters available with the Java development tools (JDT) is shown below:

You may also choose the types of content for the view to show as well. The default content extensions available with the Java development tools (JDT) is shown below, but your specific extensions will be determined by your workbench configuration:

### Link with Editor

See the toolbar item description above.

In addition to these menu items, the Project Explorer menu shows a list of recently used working sets that have been selected in the view.

## Context menu

### New

This command allows you to create a new resource in the Workbench. Select the type of resource to create from the submenu.

### Copy

This command copies the selected resource to the clipboard.

### Paste

This command pastes resources on the clipboard into the selected project or folder. If a resource is selected the resources on the clipboard are pasted as siblings of the selected resource.

### Delete

This command deletes the selected resource from the workspace.

### Move

This command moves the selected resource to another location. A dialog will appear, prompting for the destination location to which the resource will be moved.

### Rename

This command allows you to specify a new name for the selected resource.

### Import

This command opens the import wizard and allows you to select resources to import into the Workbench.

### Export

This command opens the export wizard and allows you to export resources to an external location.

### Refresh

This command refreshes the Workbench's view of the selected resource and its children. For example, this is used when you create a new file for an existing project outside the Workbench and want the file to appear in the Project Explorer view.

### Close Project

The close project command is visible when an open project is selected. This command closes the selected project.

### Close Unrelated Projects

This command will close any project which are unrelated to the selected project.

### Open Project

The open project command is visible when a closed project is selected. This command opens the selected project.

### Team

Menu items in the Team sub-menu are related to version control management and are determined by the version control management system that is associated with the project. Eclipse provides the special menu item Share Project... for projects that are not under version control management. This command will present a wizard that allows you to choose to share the project with any version control management systems that has been added to Eclipse. Eclipse ships with support for CVS.

### Compare With

Commands on the Compare With sub-menu allow you to do one of the following types of compares:

- Compare two or three selected resources with each other
- Compare the selected resource with remote versions (if the project is associated with a version control management system).
- Compare the selected resource with a local history state

After you select the type of compare you want to do, you will either see a compare editor or a compare dialog. In the compare editor, you can browse and copy various changes between the compared resources. In the compare dialog, you can only browse through the changes.

### Replace With

Commands on the Replace With sub-menu allow you to replace the selected resource with another state from the local history. If the project is under version control management, there may be additional items supplied by the version control management system as well.

### Properties

This command displays the properties of the selected resource. The kinds of properties that are displayed depend on what type of resource is selected. Resource properties may include (but are not limited to):

- Path relative to the project in which it is held
- Type of resource
- Absolute file system path, or name of path variable when using linked resources
- Resolved path variable when using a path variable for a linked resource
- Size of resource
- Last modified date
- Read-only status
- Derived resource status
- Execution arguments, if it is an executable resource
- Program launchers, if it is launchable
- Project dependencies, if any

Team programming with CVS
Three-way compare
Linked resources

Compare editor