A project is the top-most program element in the IDE hierarchy of program elements. A project contains all the packages used for a particular work unit, such as an entire application.
To create a new project:
The new project will appear in the Projects page of the Workbench. To add a descriptive comment for the new project, select it, and fill in a description in the Comment pane of the Projects page.
Once you have created a project, you can add other program elements (packages, classes, methods, and so on).
In
the team development environment, any member of the team can create a project.
Projects and other program elements
Browsing the workspace
Creating a package
Creating a class
Creating an interface
Creating an applet or application
Adding projects and packages from the repository to the workspace