[jbosstools-dev] SSH deployer: Something interesting I've been working on

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 04-11-2009 22:11, Rob Stryker wrote:
> I do not use the Resource API at all really. The Module Factories do to
> create their IModuleResource[] tree, but once you get down to publishing
> I never deal with the resource API at all.
>
> I'm not sure how using the Resource API is superior to simple file
> copies. I could maybe understand it if the deploy folder / destination
> were in the workspace, as the workspace would need to be aware of those
> files existence. However a simple refresh on a project would accomplish
> the same thing after using the generic java.io APIs.   I see no obvious
> superiority of the Resource API to warrant using it.
>    
You ain't reading the same mails I obviously ;)

Having this would allow users to publish to anything that eclipse 
filesystem can mount! That's a pretty
big advantage.

/max