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Hi,
Can you please give some general advice on using MyEclipse projects with a Source Control repository?
In a multi-developer envinronment, which files would you recommend to place under source control? For example, inside a Web Project you have the .myeclipse folder, .classpath, .project, .mymetadata, with in the WebRoot you have META-INF and MANIFEST.MF, numerous .tld files, jstl.jar and standard.jar in the lib folder, etc.
This is a general question seeking advice from your environment and your development experience, I appreciate there is no fixed answer for all.
My aim would be to allow developers to check out a project from source control and start developing with minial IDE(project) configuration such as setting classpaths, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Akmal.
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Akmal,
Good questions all around, let me say that all the dot-files (.XXX) in your project root are IDE-specific to Eclipse/MyEclipse, all the OTHER files are pretty much required general-purpose Web files that you will need regardless of the IDE. If you want a checkout-and-go experience for your other developers, and they are all using MyEclipse, just check in *everything*. Then as soon as the next guy pulls it down, the project will be recognized as a web project, all the classpatha nd configuration set and walla, all ready to go. Keep in mind that if you have any external JARs in your classpath, each developer will need to setup that up externally, but if all the resources you link to are IN the project itself, it’s a very download-n-go experience.
