Hi,
I was wondering what the use is of the eclipse plugin and mostly when it is
usefull. I know it generates files for Eclipse but why /when would you use it?
Most projects in our organization work with tools such as RSA or Eclipse with
several project wizards. When they start developing they will use the IDE to
setup a project, especially with RSA that provides specific wizards which
generate all needed configuration.
I'm not saying the plugin is useless, on the contrary, when you start with
archetypes to create the application it's very usefull. But i've seen a project
that did not check in the .project and .classpath because they wanted all
developers to create the eclipse files using the eclipse plugin. The .classpath
i can understand since is uses the location of the Maven repo which is
userspecific, but why the .project? Are there cases where this plugin is only
partially usefull and if so, should the plugin be able to just generate a
.project file?
Any idea, suggestions.
Thanks,
Maarten
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