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.