Importing a project with multiple versions

[Will Pittenger]

I am attempting to migrate a Java applet project from Eclipse. The Eclipse version is messed up. The code's original author developed it for Java 1 and used VI as his editor. It was designed to work a lot like PowerPoint, but optimized for demonstrating simple code to beginning programming students.

When I took over the project, I used Eclipse. To safeguard the older code, I developed in a subfolder. My changes mainly involved the ability to record the lesson as a series of SVG files with audio files for each slide. An XML file describes everything.

Then a HTML file, a CSS file, and a JS file allowed any HTML5 browser with SVG support to display the lesson on the student's computer. This remote portion was part of the same Eclipse workspace as a separate project.

That file arrangement worked OK. But then the code's original author created a SourceForge project. I concluded that while the file arrangement I had worked for me, it wasn't suitable for SVN. I wanted something like Project/Code/Version where Version was "1.0", "2.0", or "Trunk". Project would be either "Remote portion" or "App portion". However, I messed up and Eclipse no longer considered the Java code to be part of an Eclipse project.

I never understood how Eclipse worked. I definitely preferred how MS Visual Studio has Solutions with many projects, some dependent on other projects in the solution. So I installed the NetBeans IDE. Since the Eclipse workspace was messed up, I didn't think NetBeans would be able to import it correctly. So I tried to create a new Java project using the existing code.

However, one project doesn't appear to be able to handle different versions of the same code. I am willing to create projects for each version, but want them grouped somehow. (I also expect to drop the "Code" level of the folder structure.)

Can someone help?