Eclipse - Workspace

• concept
  • Each Workspace represented as a folder, the default will be .metadata, RemoteSystemsTempFiles two folders and Servers
  • Each share some Workspace Settings, such Workbench Layout, Working Sets, Preferences set (Eclipse previously thought it was global) and the like, when switching certain workspace can select Copy Settings.
  • After you install Eclipse or STS, there will be a default Workspace (such as sts), is selected when you first open the directory.
  • Each Workspace may contain a plurality of project, working set.
• use
  • Sometimes a project may have multiple eclipse project, and two projects may have the same name as the eclipse project, there may be a problem in the same workspace in
  • In order to distinguish between different settings Preferences
  • In order to distinguish between different Workbench Layout Preferences (perhaps to accommodate different styles lead to different project types)
  • If you simply want to get some of the eclipse project sub-groups, perhaps under different working set of the same workspace on it
• other
  • Every time when you open the eclipse / sts, there will pop lets you select workspace, you can no longer check the next time it pops up, you can also re-check to make in Windows-> Preferences-> General-> Startup and Shutdown-> Workspaces in it pops up again at the next start.
  • If all of the workspace are in the D: / workspace / sts directory, you can create multiple workspace default, projectname, etc. in which all of the workspace are in this directory, easy to manage.