[jbosstools-dev] Recommandation: Using a target-platform in your IDE

Hi all, After some investigations around JBIDE-11726 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11726> (Create target platforms for developer), we have arrived to an interesting result by having 378987 <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378987> and**JBIDE-12003 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12003> fixed, so that target platform should be much more stable (CI job only publish them after validating they can successfully be resolved) and having make progress about JBIDE-11689 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11689>;, by using "includeSource" flag on target-platforms. So if you want to be less surprised by dependencies-related issue, here is a way to make your IDE use an equivalent target as the one used by build, without loosing ability to view source: 1. Checkout the build/target-platform folder in your workspace 2. Open *multiple.target* using the target editor 3. Ckick on "*Set as Target"* on the upper-right corner Then, PDE will rely on this target definition to resolve dependencies (from Eclipse, Atlassian, SpringSource and other 3rd-party deps we have). In order to resolve other JBoss Tools stuff, you may want to complete it with entries from our development update-sites to resolve other modules if you need, but please don't commit anything to this TP before opening a ticket to the target-platform component. Your feedback is welcome on JBIDE-11726. -- Mickael Istria Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>