[jbosside-dev] Multiple modules per project in Webtools

Hey guys.. Last week Rob and I attended the JEE5 Development Status meeting with all the people representing the major sub-projects in WTP. A good 20-30 minutes was taken up debating our issue (allowing multiple modules types/standard facets per project), and I basically wanted to report what the conclusion was, as well as some follow up that's been happening since then. It's WTP's stance that Eclipse's project model is not granular enough to support multiple modules per project (more or less the runtime associations). They have effectively deferred us to the Platform project to get this issue resolved so WTP can resolve the issue downstream. Their reasoning was they were re-writing the project model from the ground up in pre-0.7 days and decided to drop it in favor of Eclipse official API. Nevermind the fact that they rewrote the Package Explorer (Common Navigator), and Project Natures (Facets). IMO this is a cop-out reasoning, but all is not lost. Kosta (I think?) has told us to drum up a list of our specific requirements for multiple module types/facets so that they will see what they can do to support those configurations specifically. During the status call, I had made mention of Seam (JSF+EJB3), which seems to be one of the biggest use cases. Can you guys give me more specific use cases that we can throw in? The more the merrier -- I'm hoping if we swamp them with use cases we can make the module model flexible like it always should have been. Since the call on Thursday, Rob and Kosta (owner of Facets, apparently decision maker on our problem) have been going back and forth on a bug for support of multiple modules. Given, they've already relegated us to the Platform for this problem, but I think it's important that they understand how crucial this feature is for our product and our extenders. Understandably, Rob is starting to steam and it would be really great if all of us could show our support by either commenting or voting on this bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=172704 Currently it's marked as WONTFIX.. my goal is to drum up some more debate at the least.. if we're lucky maybe we can pull in some more WTPers into the fold and make pressure to fix this issue either in WTP or upstream in Platform. -- Marshall Culpepper marshall.culpepper(a)jboss.com JBossIDE Team Lead JBoss, a division of Red Hat