1 The *.ent files in this directory provide common functionality to the
   2 project.xml file of various projects.  There are different kinds,
   3 e.g. "-sources" from share-sources.ent
   4 
   5 * -sources: Defines sources used by a project.
   6 
   7 * -view: Defines project's sources that are displayed in the Projects tab.
   8 
   9 * -actions: Defines a set of actions of the project available from NetBeans.
  10 
  11 * -bindings: Defines the targets invoked by the corresponding actions.
  12 
  13 Note that -sources and -view files come in pairs: A project will have an
  14 entity reference for each, so that it uses and displays the sources.
  15 
  16 Similarly, -actions and -bindings are paired.
  17 
  18 These kinds are not paired:
  19 
  20 build-folder.ent: Defines the location of the folder where compiled classes,
  21 resources, etc. are placed.
  22 
  23 java-data-native.ent, java-data-no-native.ent: These define information about
  24 the location of classes and sources of native and non-native projects, where
  25 "native" is suggestive of "native code", that is, non-Java source code.