henk de boer [
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"Re: JBoss tools does not put impl classes on classpath for AS7"
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Sorry for the late reply, I totally missed the previous post. Some of the things sound
very good :^0 Especially the ability to see sources for those classes/jars that the
server runtime providers can't/won't/didn't include.
If you forgive me for being too critical, there are maybe two things that might be
slightly improved. The first one is about this point: "set up the central JBoss Maven
repository as explained in"
Personally I like to avoid Maven as much as possible. None of my projects use Maven. I
either just use the Eclipse builders and/or Ant. If a tool uses Maven under the cover,
then that's an implementation detail I don't mind, but if I have to explicitly
install and configure Maven then that's quite another thing. Maybe it's a personal
awkward thing of me, but there might be more users who don't want to be explicitly
confronted with Maven (I think surveys from Eclipse and Zeroturnaround revealed only ~50
of Java developers use Maven).
Another things concerns this point "you can add a Server Runtime container to the
project's classpath (optional)". To me it was not 100% clear what this meant.
Isn't this already possible without JBoss Tools, or does it mean that a source
container can be added to the project's classpath?
The final piece of the puzzle is opening implementation classes that aren't included
by default in the server runtime using ctrl-t and actually compiling your own code against
those. I know that "normally" you shouldn't do this (for portable Java EE
apps), but it can be very important for bug hunting and temporary workarounds.
Anyway, I'll try the feature tomorrow. Thanks again!
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