[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBIDE-782) Bring Back Capabilities

[Max Andersen (JIRA)]

Bring Back Capabilities 
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                 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 ?


     


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