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<title>The Derby Nature</title>
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<h2>The Derby Nature</h2>
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Enabling a nature for a project allows a plug-in to give a project a 
personality or characteristics it desires.   By adding the Derby Nature
to a specific project you are enabling the Derby features for that project. 
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<h3><a href="nature.html">Adding the Derby nature to a Java project</a></h3>  
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The Derby jar files are added to the Java project and the project class path 
is automatically updated to include these jar files.   All Derby features, 
like starting and stopping the Network Server, and running <b>ij</b> 
and <b>sysinfo</b> are enabled for the project. 
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<h3><a href="remove_nature.html">Removing the Derby nature from a Java project</a></h3>
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All Derby jar files are removed from the project and all Derby 
features are disabled for the Java project. 
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