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<spanclass="menuchoice"><spanclass="guimenuitem">File</span> → <spanclass="guimenuitem">Import</span> → <spanclass="guimenuitem">Existing projects into Workspace</span></span> and select the folder containing JMeter sources.
<h4>Option 2 : Setting up Eclipse project manually</h4>
The first step is to download dependencies by running the Ant command:</p>
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