Anna: I've now figured out what you were referring to several weeks ago when you stated that your team said that Eclipse creates files that are not compatible with NetBeans.... Yes, the .ClassPath and .Project folders and files are created by Eclipse but will not affect anything on your local system as long as they are not part of your archive and or build process. Jim James M. Corbett Programmer / Analyst GST/HST Micros | Micros de la TPS/TVH Business Suite Assessing Systems (BSAS) Revenue and Accounting Systems Directorate (RASD) | Direction des Systèmes de revenu et de comptabilité (DSRC) Information Technology Branch (ITB) | Direction générale de l'informatique (DGI) Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenue du Canada (613) 941-1338 "...Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?"