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# Creating an AspectJ Project

- Creating a new project
- Converting an existing project

### Creating a new AspectJ project

From the File menu select new… . If “AspectJ project” appears in the list, select it.

If it doesn’t, this is probably the first time you’ve used the plugin – select “Other” and then “AspectJ” and “AspectJ project.”

The new project wizard appears:

This wizard has identical behaviour to the new Java project wizard (except of course that it creates a project with the AspectJ nature).

When you click “Finish” on the new project wizard, your project will be created. If this is the first time you’ve used AJDT, you will see the following dialog pop-up:

This dialog configures some Eclipse settings that will make your life much easier when working with AspectJ projects (prior to AJDT 1.1.4, these were manual post-installation configuration steps). Leave everything selected and click “Finish.”

### Converting an Existing Project for use with AspectJ

From the Package Explorer view, select your project and right-click to bring up the context menu. Select “Convert to AspectJ Project.” If you later want to restore the project to its former settings, select “Remove AspectJ Nature” from the context menu. If this is the first time you’ve used AJDT, you’ll see the preferences configuration wizard as above.