Bring Back Capabilities ------------------------ Key: JBIDE-782 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-782 Project: JBoss Tools Issue Type: Bug Components: JBoss Tools Core Affects Versions: 2.0.0.Beta3 Reporter: Max Andersen Assigned To: Marshall Culpepper Priority: Critical Fix For: 2.0.0.Beta4 Capabilities, library set, templates are a very usefull feature. Here is a list of reasons why we disabled it (and things that would be relevant to improve)...lets find out if these are really true or we can fix or live with these: 1) All templates, including libraries seem to be copied to the users workspace on startup. That has several issues: a) why is a copy necessary ? Can't we just use directly from our plugins ? Users workspace should not contain something that is not workspace local. b) users can change the templates we have tested and verified - makes supporting them pretty hard. c) what happens in case of a new version ? do we overwrite whatever changes that are done ? Users won't be happy. My Suggested solution: Separate the capabilities/libraries etc. up into System preinstalled/plugin provided plugins and User templates. If a user want's to redefine an existing template they make a copy with a different name. 2) Library sets are very close to class libraries...so why not put them/define them as such ? And then we could add a "Copy class libraries" feature to actually copy any class library to the project - giving users teh best of two worlds and no redundant functionallity. 3) Capabilities are very much like facets just more dynamic...should it be exposed like that instead ? (issue: what about on projects that are not facet projects ... maybe a "Capability" facet could be made ? ...will it work with all the version number checks they got ?) 4) It seem to be bound to JSF/Struts....why ? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira