Is there any equivalent in Java of .sln file of C#?

[Monica Shiralkar]

In C# there is 1  .sln file for the solution. Is there any equivalent of .sln file in Java?

Thanks

[Campbell Ritchie]

What is a .sin file? Is it a counterpart of a .jar?

Not a “Beginning Java®” question. Moving to our C# forum.

[Monica Shiralkar]

It is not  .SIN file. It is .SLN file.  There is 1 . SLN file for all projects in a solution.


The equivalent of of  .jar of java is   DLL  not  .SLN file.

[Campbell Ritchie]

So what is an sln file (now I know its correct name ‍)? I haven't see anything like that in Java®, no. It isn't some sort of .war file, I presume?

[Monica Shiralkar]

If we have multiple projects inside an application then all these projects come under a solution and there is a. SLN file associated with this solution. You click on this. SLN file in the folder and it will open the whole group in visual Studio that is all the projects of the solution will get opened.

[Dave Tolls]

That's a Visual Studio file.
It's not C# specific.

[Stephan van Hulst]

As Dave said, it's not specific to C#, but instead to Visual Studio. The .sln extension stands for "solution". A solution is not much more than a collection of project references. It tells your IDE which projects you want to open at the same time, and which of them is your main project.

In NetBeans it would be similar to a "project group". I don't know how other IDEs call it. Usually IDEs don't store project groups in separate files, but somewhere in the IDE configuration settings instead.

[Tim Holloway]

Stephan van Hulst wrote:
In NetBeans it would be similar to a "project group". I don't know how other IDEs call it. Usually IDEs don't store project groups in separate files, but somewhere in the IDE configuration settings instead.

In Eclipse, it would be the ".project" file, which defines the project. In IntelliJ, they kept 2 files - one for the project itself, and one for the individual user's saved project context. That is, remembering stuff like what files a user was looking at and other things to make life easier, but not actually required to build the project.

Because the filenames used by Eclipse and IntelliJ are different, I have on occasion built multi-IDE projects, where a developer could use either Eclipse or IntelliJ to do their work.

But my standard for production builds is that they be done from the command line (for example via Maven, and possibly launched by Jenkins), none of those files were required or used for production builds.

[Monica Shiralkar]

Thanks. I understood that is of the IDE and not the language.