diff --git a/icu4j/samples/.classpath b/icu4j/samples/.classpath
index 1fbff5a5874..7eb130ff00b 100644
--- a/icu4j/samples/.classpath
+++ b/icu4j/samples/.classpath
@@ -3,5 +3,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/J2SE-1.5"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.USER_LIBRARY/ICU_JAR"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/icu4j-core"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/icu4j-collate"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="out"/>
 </classpath>
diff --git a/icu4j/samples/.project b/icu4j/samples/.project
index 42f498b99a6..c05c28b194a 100644
--- a/icu4j/samples/.project
+++ b/icu4j/samples/.project
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 	<name>icu4j-samples</name>
 	<comment></comment>
 	<projects>
+		<project>icu4j-collate</project>
+		<project>icu4j-core</project>
 	</projects>
 	<buildSpec>
 		<buildCommand>