[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Eclipse IDE (dev)] - Re: WAS: Hibernate Tools not forward compatible with WTP (@h

[dlmiles]

Unfortunately I don't have the answers to making it easy for a new user to get started (over and above an all-in-one archive).

The way I see the Eclipse architecture is that each feature should principally be distrubuted in isolatation first. "Runtime only" version that is the way nature intended.

You are already in no-mans-land when you start distributing anything between an all-in-one and runtime only and thats a hiding to nothing in the future with with permutations of platform and feature sets and to this I can't really offer anything.


There maybe suggestions that can be made to update manager development team on this, for example if after a platform restart (or -clean) a new feature/plugin is detected and it can not be activated (due to missing dependancies) then they get a prompt on screen offering was to resolve that problem by locating and downloading those missing dependancies.

The way I see the new user problem at the moment is that the platform does not help them enough when a pre-requisite problem occurs.  When I think that issue should be in their face to deal with (or ignored) as soon as its detected, even little things like notification  confirming a new plugin was detected and is activated giving the user positive feedback their unzip worked correctly.


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