Importing a Project into Eclipse

Question

Hi Folks,
My collegue just zipped up a flex project and emailed it to
me. I'm trying to get it set up in my own Eclipse/FlexBuilder, and
could sure use a little guidance, since I'm new to all this.
First, shall I create a new Eclipse workspace for this
project?
Then what? The File | Import function demands that I create a
"New Project". But if I create a flex project, it creates a whole
bunch of files that will just be over-written when I unzip the
*real* project. Which will probably corrupt somebody's view of the
project.
If, instead, I create a new project, and Import into that,
well, what sort of project should I create?
And where do I point my workspace directory? Anywhere seems
to do, but should it point to the place where I unzip the real
project files?
And finally, is there some documentation that covers these
basic mechanics? This just seems far far far more complicated than
it needs to be, and a simple explanation of how to set up new and
exlisting Eclipse/Flex projects would be a great help.
Thanks,
ws
p.s. If anyone has a Team Server plugin for Eclipse, please
let me know. That too would be a great help!

Answer 1

Question 1) does your ziped project have .project file inside
of it?
1) if (Yes)
you dont need to create new project
open Eclipse click file -> Import ...
in a dialog open Plus sign next to general and select
"Existing projects into workspace". click next
next window you need to browse to directory where you have
unzipped your project (make sure you select directory that has
.project file inside ) after clicking ok in browser dialog eclipse
should recognize it as project and lastly you will see eclipse
displays that as a project you can select , so select it and click
finish , thats it all should be done.
2) if your zipped project does not have .project file :
before doing anything you need to analyze the directory
structure, does it have WEB-INF in it does it have src etc , if you
can at least shortly outline that directory structure it would be
lot easier to tell you how to get it working.
it look slike that you are trying to create non basic flex
project?
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