Creating Projects

See Also

A project is a collection of files that make up an application. In Visual J++, projects are directory-based, which means the project is defined by the files in the project directory structure on the hard disk.

Visual J++ provides several code templates to help you create a project. A template consists of a skeleton Java class that provides the basic code framework. Using these templates, you can create the following types of projects:

You can also create an empty project without using any of the code templates.

A Visual J++ project is associated with a .vjp file, which tracks certain project settings. Each project is then contained within a solution. A solution can contain a single project or multiple projects, and is identified by an .sln file. For information about adding multiple projects to a solution, see Creating a Multiproject Solution.

In addition to creating a new project, you can: