[jbosstools-dev] JAX-RS, JPA and JSF Maven configurators moving to m2e-wtp at eclipse

[Fred Bricon]

Le 14/11/2012 22:46, Max Rydahl Andersen a écrit :
> p.s. removed non-public email list from public one.
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> Can those changes really be part of SR2 release train ? I thought only bugfixes made it into them ?
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> I had expected these to be a Keppler feature?
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> ....and with all this greatness - can we still add our own listeners to these events and adjust configs are is there some evil possible limitation now ?
Only specific JBoss thing we have now is adding the M2 facet in those 
configurators.
I'm not sure exactly how we're gonna reproduce that (we could add a 
facet listeners for all Java EE Facet. If maven nature is installed, 
then add the M2 Facet)

> /max
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> On 13 Nov 2012, at 14:56, Fred Bricon <fbricon at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> we decided to contribute the JAX-RS, JPA and JSF Maven configurators back to the m2e-wtp project (https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13048) where we believe they truly belong :
>> - JAX-RS, JPA and JSF are WTP components
>> - current JBoss Tools coupling is really light, when it exists.
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>> I'm currently preparing the initial contribution by changing the projects namespaces, making them build without any JBoss Tools dependencies, before submitting Contribution Questionnaires (CQ) on Eclipse IPZilla.
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>> Since Snjeza and I, contributors on the aforementioned plugins, are already committers on m2e-wtp, the IP clearance should be pretty straightforward.
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>> General goal is to release the migrated plugins from their new home @eclipse.org next February, as part of m2e-wtp 0.17.0, along the Juno SR2 release train.
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>> JBT 4.0 and JBDS 6.0 will still embed the JBoss version of the plugins next december, but the plan is to make them shutdown gracefully once m2e-wtp 0.17.0 is active. I have not decided yet if we should make the features updateable by their m2e-wtp counterparts yet (but there's a good chance that's what we'll do).
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>> As a consequence, JAX-RS, JPA and JSF configurators enter in maintenance mode in JBIDE : bug can still be fixed  in JBT, but new features should be requested in bugzilla (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=M2E-WTP)
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>> Regards,
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>> Fred Bricon
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