HOW TO OPEN NETBEANS PROJECT IN ECLIPSE ?

1. Lets say you already have a NetBeans 4.0 project created called MyProject and located at \MyProject
2. open NetBeans 4.0
   • open MyProject
   • Right click MyProject and select Clean Project (this deletes the build/classed and dist folders)
   • open the file project.properties located in the folder \MyProject\nbproject
   • change the build.dir to bin
   • change the build.classed.dir to ${build.dir}
   • save and close the file
   close NetBeans 4.0
3. create a ZIP file of the \MyProject\MyProject.zip that will contain this folders:
   • nbproject
   • src
   • Any other folder or file that is located at \MyProject
4. create a new folder \NEW (or your choice), this is were we are going to create the Eclipse 3.0.1 Project
5. open Eclipse 3.0.1
   • go to Window, Open Perspective, Java
   • go to File, New, Project, Java Project
   • click NEXT
   • type MyProject
   • select Create project at external location
   • type \NEW\MyProject (this folder will be created by ECLIPSE)
   • select Create separate source and output folders
   • click NEXT
   • click FINISH
   • Right click on MyProject (at the Package Explorer)
   • select IMPORT
   • select ZIP file (usually the last option on the list)
   • click NEXT
   • BROWSE and look for the \MyProject\MyProject.zip created on STEP 3
   • click FINISH
   close Eclipse 3.0.1
6. create a new folder \NEW\MyProject\dist(necesary for Netbeans 4.0)
7. Now you can DECIDE when to work with Eclipse 3.0.1 or Netbeans 4.0