timmay3141
Programmer
I know Java somewhat and just started a job using it. I'm supposed to modify a project that already exists. The project is so screwed up I don't know where to begin: there are blatant package rule violations and tons of errors. After screwing around with it for a couple hours, I still can't get it to work, although it apparently did for the people who made it. I assume that most of these are in files that are not used since there are so many errors, but I don't know that for sure. Anyway, half the files in the project have the normal .java extension, and the other half have a .java~ extention. Eclipse won't recognize the .java~ as legitimate source code. Google thinks it is smarter than me and removes the tilde from the search so I can't look for an answer to this question online. Does anyone know why it would have a tilde at the end of the normal file extension? Does this have some special significance?