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Every time I start working on a new J2EE web application, I need to create the various Eclipse projects that I'll fill up. This includes the top-level project that generates the EAR, a WAR project, etc. I usually only have to do this every couple of months, so I never remember the exact steps - specifically, which Eclipse Project Wizards to use for each project in the webapp.

I have enough old J2EE projects laying around that they could serve as good reference if only I could actually see which Wizard created them. Is there a way to recover this information?

Matt Ball
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I don't think it is possible.

What I would suggest is to use Maven. It has archetypes to automatically create specific types of projects. It is even easier in Eclipse with m2eclipse plugin. Take a look here

Eugene Ryzhikov
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I don't think that information is stored anywhere.

However you can look at the .project xml file that every project has in Eclipse. You want to look at the <natures> element specifically, that will give you a hint of what type of project you want to create.

Iker Jimenez
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The best system I found since asking this is to look at a project's facets. If needed I can compare an existing Eclipse project to a newly created one from the wizard; if the facets are identical, then I've (re)found the right wizard.

Matt Ball
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