[Walter Stovall]

I’ve built a workspace that I’d like to deliver to new My Eclipse users that already has a few working launch configurations. But when my workspace is loaded into a freshly installed My Eclipse (FullStack) the properties I’ve set are somehow missing. They can be successfully added, but I’d like to prevent the necessity of that manual workaround if possible.

The specific settings are Window->Preferences->My Eclipse->Application Servers->Tomcat 5->JDK. This panel is populated when I zip up my workspace. But unzip the workspace at another computer without these settings, and the workspace does not provide them. You can’t launch tomcat without visiting this panel and pointing it to a JDK.

Is this a bug? Is there a way to get these settings to move with my workspace?

Thanks in advance for responses – Walter

[Riyad Kalla]

Walter,
Have you tried using File > Export > Preferences, and then having your other users use File > Import > Preferences?

[Walter Stovall]

Good suggestion – I’ll try it

[Walter Stovall]

As it turns out, the server deployments do not move over to new eclipse installations with Import->General->Preferences. When I look at the preferences file I do see these settings but the Servers tab at the bottom of the J2EE Development perspective still doesn’t show any deployments. The tomcat location does come over, so you can start tomcat. But nothing is deployed into the tomcat webapps directory unless you manually create a deployment.

[Riyad Kalla]

Oh I must have misunderstood, yes the deployments won’t be carried through using the preference file.

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