Purge of Eclipse files from projects

[Cantor, Scott]

This mostly just affects the core team but for anybody else who does any development against the code....

We've had a hate/hate relationship with dealing with the problem of Eclipse settings in the projects and we are finally fixing the mistake we made checking them all in, starting with the main branches at least. We may or may not do this on the old branches.

All of the Eclipse files except the checkstyle configs are going to be purged from the repositories. In exchange, we have exported the most critical formatting and code settings and have updated the "set up Eclipse" page [1] to reflect the requirement to import them globally and apply them that way instead of per-project.

A re-import of the projects into Eclipse from scratch will be needed to start fresh and avoid conflicts.

An outstanding item is what we don't know if we need to define and document the Java compiler settings within Eclipse or what they should be, but since the releases are always done via command line with Maven it won't affect any project output.

-- Scott
 
[1] https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/1122271670/Configuring+Eclipse