Choosing Between Importing with and Importing without Project Dependencies

As mentioned earlier, NetBeans IDE's Eclipse Project Importer provides two options for importing Eclipse projects into NetBeans IDE:

• Selecting Eclipse projects from an Eclipse workspace, where project dependencies can be automatically identified, marked, and selected by NetBeans IDE's Eclipse Project Importer.

  This option preserves project dependencies and consequently makes it very easy to import Eclipse projects that have dependencies on other Eclipse projects. The project importer automatically determines the project dependencies for you. You can also use this option to import an Eclipse project that has no additional project dependencies.

• Importing only the specified project and ignoring any project dependencies that may exist with other Eclipse projects.

  This option is best suited for situations in which you do not have an Eclipse workspace but do have access to an Eclipse project.

In most cases, you should use the option to import Eclipse projects using an Eclipse workspace so that project dependencies are preserved. The option to import Eclipse projects directly while ignoring project dependencies is most applicable when an Eclipse workspace is no longer available as a result of an action such as an Eclipse IDE uninstall that resulted in an Eclipse workspace removal.