Linking external source folder with name “src” in an eclipse project

Question

This is NOT a question about linking source in eclipse java project

Is it possible to add an external folder named \"src\" in eclipse as the source

Answer 1

It is somewhat ugly, but you can create a hardlink in your filesystem. In the Windows command line, use mklink /H src d:\path\to\external\src.

I know that the following will hardly be useful, but: Think of a different approach.