Role of vcrepo.dat in TIBCO

TIBCO Designer generates a file named vcrepo.dat in the project root directory when we first save the project.

This file is used to store properties like display name, TIBCO Rendezvous encoding, and description.

This file can also be used for identification in place of the project root directory and can be used as the repository locator string (repoUrl).

Below are contents of one sample VCRepo.dat file for project name MyProjectHelloWorld created using TIBCO Designer version 5.7.4-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<repository version="2" commitCount="1">

  <instanceInfo>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="displayName" value="MyProjectHelloWorld"/>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="version" value="5.7.4"/>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="rootDir" value="."/>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="instanceType" value="localFile"/>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="fileType" value="VC"/>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="creationTime" value="1357726054540"/>

    <instanceInfoProperty name="encoding" value="ISO8859-1"/>

  </instanceInfo>

</repository>