The jboss-ide uses a very elegant way to define several jboss instances as launch configurations. This approach has the advantage to have many different configurations of the same application server. For example you can have many jboss 3 server configurations. The current myeclipse implementation only allows one.
It would be very usefull to implement or integrate this kind of functionality.
The ‘server navigator’ / ‘log file viewer’ feature of the jboss-ide plugin are also very usefull features. Especally server navigator shows you all the configured servers and it acts as a global management console. It is an eclipse view so it is very convinient because you can dock it anywhere or make it a fast view that it always available.
It would be very cool if you could join forces with the guys at jboss-ide and enchance it to handle other server types that myeclipse handles.