Rational® Synergy
supports two kinds of work areas for subprojects: absolute and relative.
The following topics describe these types of work areas:
Absolute work areas
Absolute work areas exist as separate directory hierarchies.
That is, a work area path of an absolute subproject does not need
to be under the path of the parent project.
Relative work areas
When used by another project, a relative subproject resides
in the work area of the parent project as if it were a subdirectory. This
is useful when you must structure your code into subprojects for performance
reasons, or if your makefiles or tools are written to use relative
paths.