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MyEclipse has worked great for me. Thanks for the good product. That said, after using MyEclipse for several months here are a few features I would really like to see changed/added to myEclipse making it an even better tool for me and perhaps others.
1. More Flexible server configurations. I would really like to be able to create multiple server configurations for the same server type. More specificly it would be nice to be able to run more then one JBoss 3 Server configuration at the same time by using an equivilent to the –host command line option.
2. The ability to have more then one web context root in a single project. I prefer the old style of development where all my packaging and building is done with ant tasks and the IDE just sets on top of my project to provide features such as editors with code completion, refactoring, etc. The only thing MyEclipse seems to be missing for me to support this development method is being able to identify multiple web contexts for a single project.
3. When I start a server I don’t always want to be automaticly switched to the debug perspective. I can see how some people may like this feature, however, I rarely am actually doing debugging when I start the my server. I’m usually doing development/testing. So I find myself 99 times out of 100 switching back to the MyEclipse perspective right after starting the server. Perhaps an option can be added to the server configuration allowing the user to select what perspective they want selected when they start the server or allow the feature to be disabled.
So is there any hope to seeing any of these enhancements anytime in the future of MyEclipse? If not is there a better way?
Thanks,
MikeMike,
So is there any hope to seeing any of these enhancements anytime in the future of MyEclipse? If not is there a better way?
We take all suggestions for improvement very seriously and our management reads this forum regularly. Basically, they’re looking to see what types of things are most often requested since for everything we add there are 10 we don’t have the resources to add. That makes the job of enhancement prioritization a tough one, but happily it’s not my job. 🙂
–Scott
MyEclipse Support@myoungstrom wrote:
1. More Flexible server configurations. I would really like to be able to create multiple server configurations for the same server type. More specificly it would be nice to be able to run more then one JBoss 3 Server configuration at the same time by using an equivilent to the –host command line option.
I think I have a similar problem/request.
I am working with three JBoss instances: One on my desktop development box, one on the group developing box and one on the production box. All the same JBoss versions. I would like to hot deploy to my desktop development box, and deploy on demand archives to the other boxes.
So: +1
I wonder how others do solve those problems. Are they developing on their production machine? 😕
@mb wrote:
@myoungstrom wrote:
I am working with three JBoss instances: One on my desktop development box, one on the group developing box and one on the production box. All the same JBoss versions. I would like to hot deploy to my desktop development box, and deploy on demand archives to the other boxes.
+1
I think that these requests could fall under providing an Export feature that is currently an open enhancement request. This would allow you to package your project and have it dropped off anywhere, including your other environments.
–Scott
MyEclipse SupportI don’t think a project export feature would help me in my situation. In my organization. The projects we work on are small to medium sized. So our projects generally consist of 2 or 3 developers with no QA department or release team.
In the current project I’m working on it consists of a large set of features with 3 or 4 other projects taking parts of the large set. Each project has it’s own unique user interface. So I have one project that acts as the owner of the core libraries. In this core project I put a prototype user interface to test the development of the libraries. I then have other projects that act as different implementations of of the core libraries with their own unique user interfaces slapped on.
So because our team is small I have my core project act as my development environment and I develop the other projects in their own JBoss production configurations and I produce deliverables from those projects including the project’s actual production environments including their own copy of JBoss configuration and all. This helps eliminate the overhead of solving problems that come up when deploying the application on different container environments.
I don’t know if you can visualize the environment I described above, but, an export feature would not help me. I would like to set up a Server configuration for my Prototype environemt, production/development environments for each of my implementations of that prototype.
In addition, my prototype contains more then one smaller web application (my request for several web contexts in a single project) plus several JBoss .sars and an ejb-jars. Making the use of one project for each deliverable kind of difficult to manage.
Anyway, just food for thought.
Mike
@myoungstrom wrote:
1. More Flexible server configurations. I would really like to be able to create multiple server configurations for the same server type. More specificly it would be nice to be able to run more then one JBoss 3 Server configuration at the same time by using an equivilent to the –host command line option.
3. When I start a server I don’t always want to be automaticly switched to the debug perspective.
myoungstrom gets 2 votes from me…
flexible server configurations are never a bad thing… WSAD 5.1 as an example.
AND
The whole switching to the debug perspective has got to be one of the most annoying things i have come accross in an IDE…. it will eventually drive me to drink 😆It looks like there has been quite a bit of chatter on this forum about these 3 features lately which is good. 🙂
Item 2: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/multiple-web-contexts/
Item 3. https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/req-add-a-quot-switch-perspective-to-quot-choice-on-laun/
That would be great to see some movement for work in these areas in the near future. 🙂
Mike
Guys just an update on this, we are putting our old EASIE server controls back into MyEclipse for the 2.8 release which will give a more flexible server control (as I understand it) and I don’t know if switching perspectives will be in, but I’ll double check.
@mb wrote:
@myoungstrom wrote:
1. More Flexible server configurations. I would really like to be able to create multiple server configurations for the same server type. More specificly it would be nice to be able to run more then one JBoss 3 Server configuration at the same time by using an equivilent to the –host command line option.
I think I have a similar problem/request.
I am working with three JBoss instances: One on my desktop development box, one on the group developing box and one on the production box. All the same JBoss versions. I would like to hot deploy to my desktop development box, and deploy on demand archives to the other boxes.
So: +1
I wonder how others do solve those problems. Are they developing on their production machine? 😕
We deploy the code through an automated build process using cruisecontrol. Developers IMHO should never even have access to production systems no matter how small the shop is.
@myoungstrom wrote:
1. More Flexible server configurations. I would really like to be able to create multiple server configurations for the same server type.
+1. Its absense surprises everyone who comes across it, and makes the product seem amateurish.
+1. Its absense surprises everyone who comes across it, and makes the product seem amateurish.
While I understand your frustration, please tell us which product does currently provide the flexibility you need. We’ve evaluated quite a few IDEs in this regard trying to learn how our competitors are doing it and they all have strict project structures; in some cases much more so than ours.
