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sharing property files between projects [message #233660]

Wed, 19 September 2007 22:36

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sreed.spamcop.net

I have a couple of projects that need to share the same properties files. What are some good ways to
set things up so I can have one copy of the property files shared between multiple projects. I would
like to avoid having to use absolute paths so the projects can be checked out of CVS and will build
and run without any tweaking.
Thanks,
Scott

Re: sharing property files between projects [message #233775 is a reply to message #233660]

Thu, 20 September 2007 12:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sreed.spamcop.net

S Reed's message received 9/19/2007 10:36 PM:
> I have a couple of projects that need to share the same properties
> files. What are some good ways to set things up so I can have one copy
> of the property files shared between multiple projects. I would like to
> avoid having to use absolute paths so the projects can be checked out of
> CVS and will build and run without any tweaking.
> Thanks,
> Scott

Currently we are sharing the properties files via a user library, but this has two significant,
major drawbacks:

1. It requires re-jarring (via ant in our case) the files every time we make a modification.

2. The current implementation of user libraries employs absolute paths in the export/import format
and must be tweaked when the libraries are checked out of CVS. (Please see bug report 70417,
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=70417, and vote for it.)

Re: sharing property files between projects [message #233780 is a reply to message #233775]

Thu, 20 September 2007 12:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

It would seem best to have a common shared base project.

S Reed wrote:
> S Reed's message received 9/19/2007 10:36 PM:
>> I have a couple of projects that need to share the same properties
>> files. What are some good ways to set things up so I can have one
>> copy of the property files shared between multiple projects. I would
>> like to avoid having to use absolute paths so the projects can be
>> checked out of CVS and will build and run without any tweaking.
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
>
> Currently we are sharing the properties files via a user library, but
> this has two significant, major drawbacks:
>
> 1. It requires re-jarring (via ant in our case) the files every time
> we make a modification.
>
> 2. The current implementation of user libraries employs absolute paths
> in the export/import format and must be tweaked when the libraries are
> checked out of CVS. (Please see bug report 70417,
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=70417, and vote for it.)

Re: sharing property files between projects [message #233811 is a reply to message #233780]

Thu, 20 September 2007 16:32

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sreed.spamcop.net

Ed Merks's message received 9/20/2007 12:48 PM:
> It would seem best to have a common shared base project.
Ed, can you explain how this would be done in detail? I have tried this
and have not been able to get the files loaded when they are not either
in a project or in jar file in a user library.
>
> S Reed wrote:
>> S Reed's message received 9/19/2007 10:36 PM:
>>> I have a couple of projects that need to share the same properties
>>> files. What are some good ways to set things up so I can have one
>>> copy of the property files shared between multiple projects. I would
>>> like to avoid having to use absolute paths so the projects can be
>>> checked out of CVS and will build and run without any tweaking.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott
>>
>> Currently we are sharing the properties files via a user library, but
>> this has two significant, major drawbacks:
>>
>> 1. It requires re-jarring (via ant in our case) the files every time
>> we make a modification.
>>
>> 2. The current implementation of user libraries employs absolute
>> paths in the export/import format and must be tweaked when the
>> libraries are checked out of CVS. (Please see bug report 70417,
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=70417, and vote for it.)

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