[jsr-314-open] [jsf2next] PROJECT_STAGE system property configuration

[Andy Schwartz]

Cay Horstmann wrote:
> It is certainly reasonable to expect dev tools to set the project 
> stage to development. I'll ping the NetBeans folks and Ludo who does 
> the Eclipse plugin.
>

Great, thanks Cay.  Please pass along any thoughts that they have on the 
topic.  We still may need some spec changes/additions to make this 
possible/easy.


> Still, it's interesting that your colleague thinks that deployers 
> can't be trusted set the project stage. With GlassFish, for example, a 
> deployer has to do a whole bunch of other stuff, such as set the 
> server password to something other than the default :-)

Hah, fun stuff.  Yeah, clearly there is a certain amount of tweaking 
that must be done at deployment time, though having JSF add to this 
burden by requiring additional deployment-time configuration is 
unappealing to me.  I would prefer to avoid adding this as a new 
requirement on JSF users/deployers.

While I would prefer not to change the project stage default, I am 
totally behind doing whatever we can to ensure a reasonable out of the 
box experience.  Development tools can certainly help here, but we 
should all be vigilant about reporting/discussing/addressing cases where 
we fall short of this goal.

Andy