[pulakchy]

I am not really sure how to saves and share myeclipse projects settings. It seems like under the workspace location there is a .metadata and file named null. Under the .metadata folder there is a folder named .plugins which contains around 30+ folders. In a development environments if i want to share the projects settings with other developers, do i have to share the whole workspace folder which is around 40MB in size? Please note that all the developers will have similar versions of JDK, and Tomcat installed in similar location sharing same project source files.

[Riyad Kalla]

There are two scopes for your setting:
Workspace (Global)
Project (Local)

Not all settings can be overridden at the project level, but most can. For example, if you open up your project properties and go to Java Compiler or Formatting options, you can see the checkbox at the top “override workspace settings”. Once you do that, the settings are stored in your .settings folder in the project.

Once that is checked into CVS, as new developers pull it down along with the other dot files, your settings will be carried over to that developer’s machine a well.

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