Using Scripts For Project Configurations

Say you are specifying your path for a Java project within an IDE like Eclipse. Instead of setting the path and other project-specific configurations within the IDE, it would be beneficial to have a record of the specific settings that the project needs to run independent of your workstation. If you keep the configuration information in a script (whose last task is starting the IDE you're developing in) then you can take the project to a customer, for example, and not have to reset all of the settings that are specific to your workspace.