How to create an automated setup for projects using Eclipse (like Ant)

It is the following situation:

I currently have multiple Java projects in Eclipse. All the sources, build files etc are checked in at a repository. If a new team member joins the project he has to rebuild the complete setup (setting build path dependencies, adding special libraries).

I thought if that could be automatically done some way, e.g. using an ant file to do all the configurations of eclipse or the servers开发者_运维技巧 (tomcat).

Anyone ever found a solution for this?

Check in the .classpath and .project files and you should be set!

(More information about the .project file.)

I believe that you might use Maven too.

But that would require quite an adjustment, I believe.