The ProjectViewer plugin allows to define groups of files as projects.

What is a project?

A project is a group of files. It has a name, a root directory, and an optional URL Root, along with other options that can be made available by other plugins.

In this version of Project Viewer, the files in a project are not restricted to the project root: any file can be added to the project (or to any directory in the project), allowing you to organize your files however you find most convenient, independently of the file system layout. The project root and the files and directories below it have a special treatment not given to others, though.

If a project is intented for website development, setting the URL Root will enable project files to be launched in a web browser. Suppose the project "Root" also correlates to the URL "http://localhost/myproject/" currently running on a web server, launching the file "hello.jsp" will launch the web browser with the URL "http://localhost/myproject/hello.jsp", if the file is directly under the root.

To create a project, click the "Add/Edit Project" button in the toolbar, or choose "Add new project" from under the desired group in the projects menu (accessible from jEdit's plugin menu of from the ProjectViewer toolbar).