[cvolk]

My only (literally) complaint about MyEclipse is the fact that it does not handle existing J2EE projects very well. By that I mean that if I import a web project, MyEclipse does not know it’s a web project. If it has Spring/Struts/Hibermate/etc. in the project already, MyEclipse does not recognize this fact. Therefore one must use ME to “add” this support. The problem there is that things might not live in the same place (within the war/ear), or the project may be using a different lib version than the one that ME might add.

Basically I’d like to see ME detect the “features” of an existing project in a much more intelligent manner than it does now. I feel that this is *crucial* given that importing existing projects is as necessary as starting new ones, if not more so. I want to open an existing project and have it know that that project is a web project and that it is using Spring + Hibernate, for instance, and setup the project in ME accordingly.

Thanks for listening, and for a killer app! ❗
Chris Volk

[Riyad Kalla]

Chris,
We can certainly make the “Capabilities” approach more streamlined, but given the impossible combination of project layouts out there I don’t think we would implement any “intelligent guessing” at what capabilities a project had. (Also note when you add Capabilities, you can always uncheck the “add libraries” checkboxes so all MYEclipse does is ask you information about where your config files live, then set’s itself up accordingly and doesn’t touch your project).

However, to address the bigger issue of project layout, that will be one of the biggest changes come version 5.0 in Q4 of this year. So we will be working ourselves hard to get a really flexible solution in soon.

[cvolk]

Thanks for the quick reply! It’s nice to see a company pay such close attention to its customers!

I’m glad to hear you will be revamping the capabilities stuff this year. Not that it’s terrible now, it just needs improving given the increasing number of potential “capabilities” (and their various permutations) these days. In the meantime I will utilize your suggestion of unchecking the “add libraries” – I did not realize it would work as you mentioned, so it’s a nice workaround for now.

Thanks!
Chris
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