[jbosstools-dev] JAX-RS, JPA and JSF Maven configurators moving to m2e-wtp at eclipse

[Fred Bricon]

Hi all,

we decided to contribute the JAX-RS, JPA and JSF Maven configurators 
back to the m2e-wtp project 
(https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13048) where we believe they 
truly belong :
- JAX-RS, JPA and JSF are WTP components
- current JBoss Tools coupling is really light, when it exists.

I'm currently preparing the initial contribution by changing the 
projects namespaces, making them build without any JBoss Tools 
dependencies, before submitting Contribution Questionnaires (CQ) on 
Eclipse IPZilla.

Since Snjeza and I, contributors on the aforementioned plugins, are 
already committers on m2e-wtp, the IP clearance should be pretty 
straightforward.

General goal is to release the migrated plugins from their new home 
@eclipse.org next February, as part of m2e-wtp 0.17.0, along the Juno 
SR2 release train.

JBT 4.0 and JBDS 6.0 will still embed the JBoss version of the plugins 
next december, but the plan is to make them shutdown gracefully once 
m2e-wtp 0.17.0 is active. I have not decided yet if we should make the 
features updateable by their m2e-wtp counterparts yet (but there's a 
good chance that's what we'll do).

As a consequence, JAX-RS, JPA and JSF configurators enter in maintenance 
mode in JBIDE : bug can still be fixed  in JBT, but new features should 
be requested in bugzilla 
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=M2E-WTP)

Regards,

Fred Bricon