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I am in the process of defining a standard image to be distributed to our developers. The image includes Eclipse 3.1 and WB 4.0. The idea is that we want to be able to move the image to another machine without having to reinstall and configure each machine from scratch.
When I move the directory structure containing the configured image to another machine everything works well except some of the preferences are missing. Specifically, the Tomcat 4 and JDK definitons must be reentered from scratch.
I’ve tried searching the disk, on the source machine, for the preference info and looked in the registry but cannot find it anywhere. What I need to know is where is this information stored so that I can be sure it moves along with the standard image.
Fran,
All Eclipse preferences are stored under the metadata section of the workspace at <workspace-directory>/.metadata. To really provide a configured image, you’ll either have to include an empty workspace, with preferences preset or export the full preference set (File > Export > Preferences) and instruct the users to import them once the installation has completed.
Scott, thanks for the info. As it turns out we did some additional digging and the .Metadata folder was never made part of the .zip archive.
We used the compression tool that is part of Windows/XP to create the archive. Our assumption is that the compression tool must not like folder names that begin with “.”.
