Hey Martin, Yeah I could potentially do one for Eclipse it just is a .project file and a .classpath file.
I'll investigate it :) Cheers, Chris On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > Le 01/10/12 00:06, Adam Estrada a écrit : >> I am all for this! I use Eclipse and sometimes getting the project set up >> from pure Maven is a real pain. What do you suggest the best path to >> implement this is for NetBeans, Eclipse, Idea, etc? Are there other >> projects out there that do this that we can take a look at? > > For NetBeans I think that a good path is simply to commit the proposed > ide-project/NetBeans directory. Users can open this project directly in > NetBeans without any configuration, provided they have run "mvn install" at > least once before. We did that for GeoAPI. > > For Eclipse and Idea, it would be nice if we could put all their files in > ide-project/Eclipse and ide-project/Idea directories, but I don't know if > those IDE allow that. I think that a few years ago, Eclipse projects were > made of ".classpath" files spread in many source code directories. I don't > know if it still the case today. I don't know neither how Idea projects are > structured. We would need advice from Eclipse/Idea users here... > > Martin > > >> On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: >>> One last question: since I work on NetBeans, I have an >>> "ide-project/NetBeans" directory with NetBeans project configuration files. >>> This configuration is not specific to my machine; it is designed in a way >>> that should make it possible to anyone to open it (NetBeans stores >>> user-specific information in a separated directory called "private"). It is >>> not a replacement to Maven; actually Maven must be run at least once before >>> to open the project, because the project refers to some files produced by >>> Maven. >>> >>> While NetBeans can open natively Maven projects, NetBeans projects are >>> faster to debug and contains information not found in Maven projects, for >>> example the words added to the spell-checker for the SIS javadoc. Would it >>> be okay if I commit a clean (user-neutral) "ide-project/NetBeans" >>> directory, excluding of course the "private" sub-directory? Maybe something >>> similar could be done in an "ide-project/Eclipse" directory if someone wish. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
