Re: How standard and interchangeable are XML config files?

Lew wrote:
Ramon F Herrera wrote:
How standard are those XML configuration files? Can a file created by
NetBeans be read and interpreted by Eclipse, and vice versa?

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Not standard at all.

The standards are ant and maven build files.

Bot Eclipse and NetBeans support ant build files.

Not only are project files not portable between IDEs, they're not portable within the same IDE.

Project files contain very specific information about directory locations, selected options, libraries and the like. Move a project even to a different hard drive on the same computer, much less to another machine, much, much less to a different IDE, and things break.
That hasn't been my experience, as long as everything is relative to the project file. At least with IntelliJ IDEA.

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