At 04:29 PM 3/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>Thanks for the reply. I'm on a steep curve with emacs, java, and of
>course the JDE. Hence I'm no position to comment on the JDE doc which is
>clear. In the last three hours of trying different things and looking at
>the commands generated and executed by the JDE I was able to run a class
>contained in a package. I have two questions:
>
>1- Which is better for a novice to build projects (make or project file?).
Project files are not used for building projects.
>From the JDE User's Guide:
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Using Project Files
A project file is a Lisp file that the JDE loads and evaluates whenever you
open a Java source file belonging to a specific project. Project files
allow you to save and restore project-specific JDE configurations. For
example, you can use a project file to set the value of the
jde-global-classpath variable to a project-specific classpath automatically
whenever you load a file belonging to that project.
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>2- Where can I get a starter prj.el (if one exists), I do not have one.
>
>From the JDE User's Guide:
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Creating a Project File
The easiest way to create a project file is to use the jde-save-project
command (JDE->Options->Save Project). This command saves the current values
of all the JDE configuration variables in the project file for the selected
Java buffer. (To be precise, the command inserts Lisp code in the project
file that restores the current settings of the configuration variables; if
such code already exists in the file, it replaces it with updated code.) If
the project file does not exist, the command creates the project file.
Thus, to create a project file that sets JDE configuration variables to
project-specific values:
Open any source file belonging to the project.
Set the values of the JDE configuration variables to the appropriate values
for the project to which the source file belongs.
See Configuring the JDE for information on how to set the values of the JDE
configuration variables.
Select Options->Save Project from the JDE menu to create a project file in
the directory containing the source file.
Once you have created the project file, you can insert additional
configuration code into the file if desired. Note that the jde-save-project
command edits rather than replaces existing project files. Thus, you can
use the command to update configuration variable settings without
disturbing any other configuration code that you have inserted manually
into the project file.
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Did you read these sections? What in them do you not understand?
- Paul
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