I'm a .Net guy and used to csproj/vbproj files being the central repository for all folders/files in a .Net project.
What's the equivalent in Java explorer in Eclipse IDE? Where does it store the folders/resources and their physical paths etc?
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There are a few files involved. .project and .classpath cover the main important features, and the .settings directory includes project-specific settings (e.g. different compiler warning levels etc).
Note that unlike Visual Studio solutions, Eclipse doesn't specify each and every file to compile: it assumes that if there's a .java file underneath a source folder, it should be compiled. This makes life a lot easier in terms of diffs to project files... once set up, the project files in Eclipse rarely change, whereas they change every time someone adds or removes a file in Visual Studio :(
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Thx for the quick update! Do you know what folder they go to? – Mrchief Aug 26 '10 at 19:03
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Way too fast for my typing ;-) – Andreas Aug 26 '10 at 19:04
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Well, actually, ignore my previous edit. I kind of got the answer I was looking for. This "implicit" folder-file relationship was the puzzle I was trying to solve :) – Mrchief Aug 26 '10 at 19:07