[Nicolai Ødum]

I am a happy MyEclipse user – I love your tool and think it is great, flexible and lightweight 😀

But I work in a large organisation and it would be impossible for me to dictate that everybody should use MyEclipse so I need an easy way to integrate MyEclipse with other “clean” eclipse clients and other Java tools. We also have a policy that forces us to compile the code on the server that should run it. This means I have to maintain an extra ant script witch it’s a duplicate of the information MyEclipse has.

So every time you implement functionality please think about that not all use your tool.

For example

Make a button to export your j2ee lib so it was part of the project
Base your wizards and “MyEclipse-web properties” on ant tasks

In the end it should be possible to compile all projects with nothing more then a clean jdk and ant.

[Riyad Kalla]

webmarck,
You have hit on a few problems that have been talked about by others wanting something similar. We tried to use Ant internally for deployment, builds, etc previously… but it was simply too limited and was causing us not to be able to implement a lot of functionalities that people were asking for. We have really expanded our project infrastructure, and will continue to do so in 2.8 which means more sweet features for you, but unfortunately this is not exportable to an Ant script… a simple example of why, Ant scripts will not follow links in Eclipse, while our deployment tool will… its these little limitations that keep us from ‘normalizing’ all functionalities around a single technology like Ant.

However, we realize the value of being able to export our functionalities to things like Ant scripts, so it is always on our mind. We will do our best to meet your needs.

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