Hello, we use MFED for Eclipse remote COBOL projects. As is suggested by the eclipse community as a good practice, we wish to share the full MFED Eclipse project between developers. This means, files like .project and .cobolProj should be shared as well. In addition, we wish to be able to use "Remote Linked Folders". For example, the build output should go into a project folder which is linked to a remote folder that is referenced by the MFES region. Each developer has her own MFES region that is configured to look for deployed programs ("JES program path") under a folder " /users/ myuserid /mfes/loadlib ". This way, after a build no (re-)deployment into the MFES is necessary to run tests. The parent folder " /users/ myuserid " folder is mapped by Samba onto a drive D: on the Windows box that runs the MFED. However, adding remote linked folders to a project results in a .project file that contains the username. For exampe (irrelevant details snipped): projectDescription name someproject /name ... linkedResources link name loadlib /name type 2 /type locationURI rse://MYHOST.MYURL.COM/users/ myuserid /enterpriseserver/loadlib /locationURI /link /linkedResources /projectDescription This makes the project un-sharable between users. After some experimentation, we have been able to work around this problem by using external XML-Entity References that point to a file on the Samba-Drive D: of the user. On her drive each user has a file "userid.txt" which contains only her userid. This is substituted into the rse: -Path. This seems to work, but requires additional setup, and one has to be careful not to re-generate the project file. !DOCTYPE projectDescription [ !ENTITY user SYSTEM "D:/userid.txt" ] projectDescription name someproject /name ... linkedResources link name loadlib /name type 2 /type locationURI rse://MYHOST.MYURL.COM/users/ &userid; /enterpriseserver/loadlib /locationURI /link /linkedResources /projectDescription So, my question is, is there a better solution? How can we use user-specific remote linked folders and still be able to share projects between users? Is there a way to somehow use the USERNAME environment variable or some such thing in the rse:URI? Regards, aru
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