How to import existing project again in Eclipse?

How to import existing project again in Eclipse?

Assume there is a maven project ABCD in Eclipse workspace.

Now you have a requirement to import the same project of different version.

Since the project name is same for the existing and one you are trying to import now, Eclipse doesn’t allow you to do that and says – ‘Project ABCD is already imported into workspace.’

To solve this, one can use advanced options of maven project import like below:

• Expand Advanced option
• Check Resolve Workspace projects
• In Name Template, there are already predefined options which you can use
• Example: [artifactId] or [artifactId]-[version] etc. I prefer to override this a bit and do like this - [artifactId]-9.5.4 if the version of the project is 9.5.4. The reason is, if the version is snapshot version, then it’ll create the project something like ABCD-9.5.4-SNAPSHOT which I don’t like!