[Glen Ihrig]

I’m just getting into ME4S and as a seasoned Skyway Builder user, I’m finding many substantial changes.

Before I write about this in detail, I was wondering, Is there any documentation, discussion, etc. on what’s new and changed and why from Skyway Builder 6.3.1?

How about moving projects between those environments? I’ve tried, and failed. The Spring DSL is so different that 2200 errors were produced, mostly things that could not be found in the new environment.

Thanks,

-Glen

[davemeurer]

Hi Glen,

It’s a great question. I’ll try to cover the main points here, but please let me know if you have more questions.

Overall, the vision for MyEclipse for Spring is that it is a separate and new product from Genuitec, but powered by Skyway. Ultimately, this means that Skyway Builder is a parallel and separate product from MyEclipse for Spring.

The key guiding principle behind MyEclipse for Spring was to build a new product that was code centric. This principle along with the design to fit the features into the MyEclipse standards lead to this “branch” of a new product.

Consequently, we haven’t spent a lot of time documenting what’s new or changed between the products, yet. We are still working through the enablement material introducing this new product, and once we are done we will spend some time differentiating the products.

In creating this new product, we had to make decisions on specific features. Consequently, we did remove some features of Skyway Builder that were less code centric. However, we compromised by added several features around bootstrapping and scaffolding to beef up our investment in “code-centric” features. This doesn’t mean those features will not be added back in the future, but they need to be prioritized along with a very long list of new features that we need to think about, especially around scaffolding (e.g. flex).

Please don’t hesitate to reply here or in the Feature Requests forum category on what you would like to see add to the MyEclipse for Spring product. Any and all ideas are highly encouraged!!

I hope this sheds some light.

Kind regards,
Dave

[alicesmile]

I made the change you suggested, and I have not seen the error today. I checked out two Web Projects from subversion, each with their own pom.xml, and I enabled maven dependency management.

Thanks for your help!

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