Importing a BlueJ Project

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You can work with existing BlueJ projects in the following two ways in the NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition:

To import an existing BlueJ project into NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition:

  1. In NetBeans IDE BlueJ Edition, choose File > Open Project.
  2. In the Open Project dialog box, navigate to and select the folder for the BlueJ project that you want to open. (Project folders are indicated with the project folder image image.) Then click Open Project.

The project opens up in the IDE. You can view the project in either the BlueJ View window or the IDE's standard Projects window.

To convert a BlueJ project into a NetBeans IDE project:

  1. Open the BlueJ project in NetBeans IDE, as described in the procedure above.
  2. In the Projects window, right-click the project's node and choose Convert to Java SE Project.

When you convert a BlueJ project into a standard Java SE project, the IDE copies the sources from your existing project and places them into a new project, where sources and compiled classes are separated into different folders. Your BlueJ project remains, but is separate from the newly created project. The converted project is not visible in the BlueJ view and can not be opened in BlueJ.

In the converted project, you can easily manage the classpath through the Libraries node. You can manage the way the application is built and packaged through the Project Properties dialog box, which you can open by right-clicking the project's node and choosing Properties.

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