Is there any way to make Eclipse's handling of projects and workspaces work like Visual Studio?

In other words, 开发者_JAVA百科one folder, one project. Copy the folder, you've copied the whole project. One project open in the IDE at a time. Self-contained. Simple.

Projects are organized as decribed in Eclipse. The folder where the project is stored contains all of the significant data. However you have the considerably more powerful paradigm of workspace. A workspace is a set of preferences and projects somehow related. If you want to work with a project you copied (as in "copy the folder") you have to import it in a workspace, but that's it: it's still a single comprehensive folder.

On the other hand if you want to have one single project open in the IDE at once you have different choices:

1. use a different workspace for every project
2. close other projects (right click, "close all unrelated projects") and setup a filter to hide closed projects
3. use working sets with a single project

This way you are giving up some really cool features, though, such as importing projects into other projects.