Eclipse Question

The Hardey Har Har thread got me to download Eclipse and try it out.
I am a harcore vim fan but I can see already how useful Eclipse will be.
Anyway, I've started looking thru the tutorials (which are great) but can't figure one thing. This question may be off topic here, but here goes anyway....
I want to view an existing project of mine in Eclipse. It is an existing project only in the sense of being an application in a package and residing in a directory structure that reflects the package name. When I create a new project in Eclipse for this existing application, I assume I use the "Create new project in exisitng location" option. My question is, if my app files are in "com.whatever.projectname", do I create the new project in "com" or in "whatever" or in "projectname"? Does it matter? Also, will creating the project prevent me in any way from making manual changes to files outside of eclipse and compiling using javac if I want to?
Thanks for any info,
Johh

I want to view an existing project of mine in Eclipse.
It is an existing project only in the sense of being
an application in a package and residing in a
directory structure that reflects the package name.
When I create a new project in Eclipse for this
s existing application, I assume I use the "Create new
project in exisitng location" option.I ususally don't. I create my projects under the Eclipse workspace and import existing code into it.
My question is,
if my app files are in "com.whatever.projectname", do
I create the new project in "com" or in "whatever" or
in "projectname"?None of the above. Create the new project in a directory that above "com". If it's more than one level above it you can set the project properties to pick up source from the directory immediately above "com".
Does it matter? Also, will
creating the project prevent me in any way from making
manual changes to files outside of eclipse and
compiling using javac if I want to?Nope. If Eclipse is running at the time it won't know about your changes until you click on "Refresh" on the project.

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