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Bug 207949

Summary: Implement convenient way of exporting/importing Java development settings.
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Marcin Kowalski <marcin.kowalski.pl>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: jerome_lanneluc, marcin.kowalski.pl, martinae
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Marcin Kowalski CLA 2007-10-30 07:43:21 EDT 
In development teams, it is an extremally important feature to have consistent settings of compiler warnings, errors, cleanup, formatting, etc.

As far as I know, currently, with Eclipse, it is not possible to export/import settings related to JDT _only_. In my team, it makes features like 'code cleanup' useless, because we do not want do deal with inconsistent changes.

Please implement a way of easy exporting and importing settings that are not related to personal workspace settings like fonts, colors and other useless and personal stuff.
Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc CLA 2007-10-30 08:28:27 EDT 
In the Export Preferences wizard, could we add a Java Compiler category (as there is for Installed JREs, or CVS Repositories) ?
Comment 2 Marcin Kowalski CLA 2007-10-30 08:40:21 EDT 
I think it would do the job.
Comment 3 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2007-10-30 09:17:42 EDT 
The common way is to use project specific settings that are then shared in the team.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163543 ***