[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Best Practice

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mike houghton wrote:
> Hi,
> We are about to use Eclipse in a team environment and I'm wondering what 
> is the best practice in terms of ensuring each team member has an 
> identical setup and configuration of Eclipse? For example - ensure we 
> all have the same plugins, everyones code is formatted the same, all 
> installations have the same actions on save etc. etc.

You can generally try to use project specific preferences for things. 
Having the same plug-ins is a bit difficult, but there are solutions for 
that problem in the Eclipse ecosystem like Yoxos:

http://eclipsesource.com/en/yoxos/
http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start

With Yoxos, you can create a profile that developers can share all 
necessary configurations to keep them consistent and in sync for all 
team members. You can also do things like workspace provisioning.

Cheers,

Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
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