Eclipse: Change general to Java project

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Eclipse: Change general to Java project

Problem: Migrate a Eclipse general project to a Eclipse Java project

You have a Eclipse project, which contains Java code – but you didn’t set it up as a Java project when you created or checked out this project. So since Eclipse doesn’t allow you to change the project type inside the Gui, you are stucked.

Solution: add the java nature

1. Close your project.
2. Open your project file (which is located in your root directory of the appropriate project) called .project with your default editor. Search for
   
   
   and change it to
   
   org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature
   
   Save the changed file.
3. Open the project again – now it’s a java project.