[Cetelem]

I have to intall and configure MyEclipse for more than 100 developpers and I’m trying to set a default workspace configuration for JDK1.4 and Tomcat4.1 and share it on each install.

The only way I found is by exporting and importing worskpace properties (Files>export>General>preferences). So developpers have to import this configuration file for each new workpace creation. Is there a way (config.ini, …) to set this by default and share this configuration setting on each new workpace creation ?

Thanks in advance

[Riyad Kalla]

Out of curiosity, why not just zip up the workspace and give them that?

[Cetelem]

It could be a solution, but I’m looking for a completly user transparent solution.
For me the user just need to ask for a new workspace in MyEclipse and he gets a well configurate workspace.

I found another way, described here : http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t83415.rhtml
but this way seems not to be supported by MyEclipse plug-in.

I created this file in c:/MyEclipse 5.1.1 GA\eclipse\configuration/.settings/com.genuitec.eclipse.easie.tomcat4.prefs

#Default Preferences for Tomcat
SERVER_ENABLEMENT=true
START_IS_DEBUG=true
PREPEND_CLASSPATH1=C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\ctg\\ccf2.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\ctg\\cicsj2ee.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\ctg\\connector.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\ctg\\ctgclient.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\xalan.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\crimson.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\mail.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\mail-1.2.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\nls_charset12.zip;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\ojdbc14.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\orai18n.jar;C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\ctlm-lib_apache-tomcat-4.1.x\\classes12.zip
TOMCAT_TEMP=C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\apache-tomcat-4.1.34\\temp
TOMCAT_HOME=C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\apache-tomcat-4.1.34
JDK_INSTALLATION_NAME=j2sdk1.4.2_03
TOMCAT_BASE=C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\apache-tomcat-4.1.34

and when I start MyEclipse, this file is parsed by Eclipse because I found all configuration lines in Help>About>Configuration Details

… (just an extract)
/configuration/com.genuitec.eclipse.easie.tomcat4/TOMCAT_TEMP=C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\apache-tomcat-4.1.34\\temp
/configuration/com.genuitec.eclipse.easie.tomcat4_5.1.1/TOMCAT_HOME=C\:\\PBApps\\ctlm-myeclipse\\apache-tomcat-4.1.34
…

but the tomcat4 plug-in of MyEclipse was not configured 🙁

Does anyone already successfully configure MyEclipse by this way ? or Is there another usual way ?

I’m really surprised that a simple user specific folder like ${user.home}/.eclipse/<plug-in-config> doesn’t make the job

[Scott Anderson]

Cetelem,

We actually have a whitepaper available that covers how to set up default configurations and preferences for
large user groups. Please send an email to subscriptions at myeclipseide.com, tell them that you’re trying
to do a large rollout with preconfigured defaults and then ask for the whitepaper that Scott said we had on the
topic. They should be able to get it back to you later today and I think it will help greatly.

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