[tvalletta]

@tikop wrote:

For me the next major feature should be a visual editor that supports JSP and JSF, not only HTML.

A visual editor that supports JSP and JSF is top on my list as well. As much as I love to dislike Microsoft, I think that they did an excellent job on the visual editor in Visual Studio .NET. They rip everyone else off, I think turn around is fair play.

[putera79]

It will be useful to add new Web Services, currently we are shifting from Oracle JDeverloper 10g and Eclipse to write our web services. In JDeveloper, it’s very easy to implement web services, I hope it will be easy in MyEclipse as well. I do not like JDeveloper, because of it’s interface, if it is just like Eclipse interface and made it easy as MyEclipse, I will go for JDeveloper, because it has PL/SQL Debugger and syntax highlighting and fully blown J2EE IDE. Don’t forget award winning TopLink sort of like Hibernate.

[cjohan]

I would like to request iBATIS DAO and SqlMaps support. It is so simple to use that it is a great timesaver.

Any support for the following type of action would also be appreciated:

     <action path="/cat/editAccount" type="com.ibatis.struts.BeanAction"
             name="accountBean" scope="session"
             validate="true" input="/people/EditAccountForm.jsp">
       <forward name="success" path="/cat/index.shtml"/>
     </action>

[dlittman]

I BELIEVE THAT TWO ITEMS ARE NEEDED WITH REGARD TO JSF.

(INCIDENTALLY, JSF IS LEADING THE POLL FOR FEATURE REQUESTS IN JDEV.)

FIRST IS A VISUAL EDITOR FOR JSF, MOST IMPORTANTLY ONE THAT HANDLES DRAG-AND-DROP PARTS FROM A DATABASE CONNECTION TO CREATE DATA REGIONS. THIS SUPPORT IS FANTASTIC IN WSAD 5 AND QUITE GOOD IN JDEV 10.

SECOND IS THE ABILITY TO EASILY ADD IN DIFFERENT RENDERING KITS. I THINK JSF IS GOING TO BE AN IMPORTANT LONG TERM ANSWER FOR SERVER-MANAGED GUI’S AND, BY NATURE, JSF IS INTENDED TO SUPPORT ANY DEVICE THAT MEETS ESSENTIALLY THE OLD WML BASICS. I KNOW JSF IS YOUNG BUT I ALREADY HAVE SEEN PEOPLE SAYING THEY HAVE TEST VERSIONS OF KITS FOR, E.G., AN IPAQ TYPE DEVICE.

IF MYECLIPSE COULD MAKE IT EASY TO BUILD FRONT ENDS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF DEVICES, AND DEPLOY THEM TO APPROPRIATE SERVERS (ANOTHER MAJOR REQUEST I HAVE SEEN HERE) IT WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT I JUST PURCHASED MYECLISPE AND IT IS THE BEST WAY I HAVE SPENT $30 IN A LONG, LONG TIME.

THANKS VERY MUCH.

DAVID LITTMAN

[Eric McIntyre]

Already voted for Web Services, but I’d put a visual JSP editor (with Struts & EL support) as a close second.

[Orestis Markou]

JSF Visual Editor please.

[henk]

How much as I like the existing JSP editor to be fixed, I also voted for the JSF Visual Editor. I really think this is the future of web development. On top of that, it does not seem to be addressed by the WTP, so this would really be a value-added feature for MyEclipse.

[lujhuang]

@cardsharp wrote:

The most important feature I can think of is the “multiple deployments for one web server” feature that’s been oft requested. I develop using exploded archives and desperately need a way to package up the WAR on the fly, whenever I need one. I used to use JBuilder and miss being able to simply right-click on the Web app and generate a WAR with exactly the same configuration as the exploded app.

I’d totally agree! It’s over 8 months since the above was posted. Is MyEclipse let me do this now?

[Edmond Wong]

For me, it is a better hibernate tool. I don’t mind to start from the database, but I would like to fine tuning the xml. Also, I can sychronize the database and the class after fine-tuning the xml.

[Riyad Kalla]

Update:

1) Totally new JSP Visual Editor comming in next release
2) JSF Visual designer to followup in 1 or 2 releases after that (this is a huge piece of work)
3) Better hibernate tooling is comming in next release and will continue to be enhanced after that
4) Anything related to app server deployment and configuring/running the app servers WILL come, but it will be a ways off still… this one of the biggest changes in MyEclipse and will include the introduction of true flexible (module based) project support. Projects are the core of the IDE and will require a very large/dedicated effort, so we need time to plan and execute this without disturbing the natural flow of bug fixing and releasing. We will start to plan this after our next release.

[Jeremy Kuhnash]

@cardsharp wrote:

The most important feature I can think of is the “multiple deployments for one web server” feature that’s been oft requested. I develop using exploded archives and desperately need a way to package up the WAR on the fly, whenever I need one. I used to use JBuilder and miss being able to simply right-click on the Web app and generate a WAR with exactly the same configuration as the exploded app.

I explicitly came to this forum to post the exact same request. I layout my web apps in such a way that good use of version control does the management for me (I have seen everything from a lib/somelib/someversion/somelib.jar to multiple configuration files for deployment to different areas <dev,stage,prod> ) but … why?

The only hitch in this is the versioning of any dependant projects and knowing what that war contains .. but overall it is still well within what I need / want for myself .. hand rolling auto-deploy maven scripts etc etc just doesn’t end up looking so attractive to me, I guess. Versioning a release WAR does, though.

[GeorgeOlive]

It would be very useful if I could set up a psuedo-application server that ftp’ed a .war file to another server.

[Fred Wang]

@gsmith53 wrote:

I would like to see the addition of a visual view editor for Java Server Faces. I know it’s not difficult to hand edit the jsp code for the page, but why should I have to do that when Visual Studio has the ability to visually create their forms and play with the component properties in a properties editor. I should be able to drag and drop available JSF UIComponents onto the JSF view.

It seems to me to be one of the only things that we can’t do in JSF today that the .Net folks are able to do.

With JSF reaching a standards level now, there is no reason not to be able to do this. Of course my exception is that I have neither the time nor the expertise to create the visual editor… I’m a java back end guy…

It would be great that there is WYSIWYG JSF designer competing with the Visual Studio.net. I think this could be one of reason that our comany switches to .Net.

[Thomas SMETS]

In the AS-connector, I believe WE should be able to extend variables too
Project can better be shared accross devloppers !
Stabillity, stability …

\T,

[pawelx12]

Visual hibernate tools.
Server monitoring (plus restart, start, stop buttons)

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