[jbosstools-dev] Why there is com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery.soa-tooling.feature?

[Nick Boldt]

Well, let's review:

a) Eclipse Marketplace does not include the feature.

b) it's not categorized and not in the Abridged or any other categories.

c) Central does not include the feature, and it isn't part of any of the 
Core or SOA Tools features / connectors.

d) It's only visible if you uncheck "show categorized features" via the 
p2 install UI, which is the workflow we're trying to discourage by 
virtue of now providing both Central and Marketplace.

So... other than having a user add the zip/site to their Eclipse/JBDS, 
and uncheck the "show categorized features" view, no one will ever see this.

But we can look at a new (and more awkward) process for publishing the 
plugin independent of the rest of the site for 3.3.1/5.0.1.

We could even consider putting the plugin into Nexus (not even 
publishing it as a p2 artifact, simply as an m2 one) and referencing it 
from the directory.xml file there.

Place your comments / suggestions here:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11111

N

On 06/01/2012 10:24 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
> On Jun 1, 2012, at 16:10 , Nick Boldt wrote:
>
>> The plugin is on the site purely as a convenience -- it's published at the same time as all the soa tooling plugins. The feature wraps the plugin so it can appear on the site. Again, a convenience.
>>
>> When it says "do not install" it means "do not install" because it's not meant to be installed. It's meant to be discovered by Central.
>
> users does not read - not sure why we keep assuming this.
>
> Is this going to be visible on user visible updatesites ?
>
> Can't we remove this since it really is not related to any p2/updatesite is it ?
> /max
>
>>
>> N
>>
>>
>> On 06/01/2012 06:00 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> the discovery plugins are not intended to be in any updatesite - its just pointed to by central.
>>>
>>> Nick ?
>>>
>>> and this is not really jbosstools specific.
>>> /max
>>>
>>> On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:27 , Andrej Podhradsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to ask why there is com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery.soa-tooling.feature in SOA Tooling update site [1].
>>>>
>>>> The description contains the following:
>>>> "JBoss Central Discovery - do not install this feature; instead, it will be discovered and used with JBoss Central."
>>>>
>>>> Nevertheless, I tried to install it and the installation fails due to MD5 checksum. So, this feature really cannot be installed, only if I turn off md5 checking ;-)
>>>>
>>>> What's the purpose of this feature? Can JBoss Central use it without installation?
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/updates/development/5.0.0.Beta2.soa-tooling/site.xml
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andrej Podhradsky
>>>> Quality Assurance Associate
>>>> JBoss SOA Platform
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