[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3872?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Nick Boldt commented on JBDS-3872: ---------------------------------- In terms of how to learn what type of user is installing DS... for the DS installer and the DP installer, we could add a page that asks the user into which perspective (collection of views & their default layout) they'd like to start DS: Containers, Java, JavaEE, JavaScript, Integration Stack). For Marketplace and BYOE installs, we could provide a feature for each perspective and let users simply choose the feature that maps to the perspective they want to use on first start. I'm thinking these features would simply be wrappers for a p2.inf instruction to set a different default perspective for the first start. After that they can just CTRL-3 / CMD-3 and find the other perspectives they might want to use. We could also use these "perspective features" the way that they exist in JBDS IS, in that they allow a user to cherry-pick which actual pieces of functionality to install from the Marketplace: * JBoss Business Process and Rules Development (BPEL, BPMN2, jBPM, Drools, Guvnor) * JBoss Data Virtualization Development (ModeShape, Teiid Designer) * JBoss Fuse Development (Fuse tooling related to Camel route development) * JBoss Integration and SOA Development (deprecated in JBDS IS 9.0) If we wanted to bifurcate DS into smaller installable chunks, we could consider doing a similar thing, but I'd need to know that the functional blocks are, what they'd be called, and which features would be included in each block. (Yes, features can be shared across multiple blocks.) Please note that I'm *not* suggesting we provide 4 or 5 different DS or DP installers; rather, I'm saying that we can provide the option for users to customize their Marketplace install (smaller footprint installed into Eclipse) but the installer-based installs will still install everything to disk, with the only customization option being the choice of initial perspective. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.11#64026)