Setting up a new project
When you start a new PDI project, there are several aspects that we have to take into account. In this section, we will talk about the following:
- Setting up of the environment
- Defining a folder structure for the project
- Availability of resources
- Versioning
Setting up the local environment
When you run Spoon for the first time, a folder named .kettle is created by default in your home directory. This folder is referred to as the Kettle home directory. As you already know, it's in this folder where the kettle.properties file is located. The folder contains additional configuration files, which are summarized in the following table:
FILE | DESCRIPTION |
| Definition of Kettle variables with Java Virtual Machine scope. |
| Definition of shared objects as for example database connections. |
| User interface settings. This file contains the settings that you defined in the |
