How To: Read SDEF files

The Standard Data Exchange Format (SDEF) is the US Army Corps of Engineers standard format for exchanging schedule data between systems. The definition of this format can be found here.

Reading SDEF files

The simplest way to read an SDEF file is to use the UniversalProjectReader:

import net.sf.mpxj.ProjectFile;
import net.sf.mpxj.reader.UniversalProjectReader;

// ...

UniversalProjectReader reader = new UniversalProjectReader();
ProjectFile project = reader.read("my-sample.sdef");

You can work directly with the SDEFReader by replacing UniversalProjectReader with SDEFReader, although this offers no particular advantage as there are no additional configuration settings available on the SDEFReader class.