This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to organize projects in the workspace with ‘Working Sets’.

If you are like me, then an Eclipse workspace gets populated with many, many projects.

A powerful way to organize the projects is to use one or multiple Working Set.

A Working Set is a selection or group of projects. Working Sets are managed through the menu in the Project Explorer view:

Use the ‘New’ button to create a new working set:

Give it a name, select the project and done:

Any combination of working sets can be selected:

That way I can decide which projects or sets are shown in the Project Explorer:

This is especially useful if grouping projects for a training or for a lecture or for set of projects working on.

To show all projects and disable the working set(s): there is a menu for this:

Happy working 🙂

Links

• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Importing Projects
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Close and Open Projects
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Text Block Selection
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Project Filter
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Black Theme
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Faster Debugger Start
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: RT(F)M
• Eclipse Gems, Tips &Tricks: Show in System Explorer
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Open Declaration
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Code Completion
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Highlight Usage and Definition
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Block Comments
• Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Working Sets