View Eclipse Run As configurations from filesystem

Question

I'm interested in viewing (not configuring/changing, just viewing) the Maven run configurations I've created created - and not from Eclipse's dialog/window but via finding them in the filesystem and viewing them in some ordinary text editor.

Can they be viewed this way? In which location are they stored?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You find the configuration files (XML) relative to your workspace in

.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.debug.core/.launches/*.launch

I found them using unix tools (In case the location has changed, eg new version of eclipse)

find . -exec  grep "UNIQUESTRING" {} \; -print

As UNIQUESTRING you could use some parameter entered in the dialog.

Answer 2

You could save run/debug configuration as shared file. This option is on last tab of Run/Debug Configuration ("Common").