[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-7527) Automatic runtime detection

[Snjezana Peco (JIRA)]

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Snjezana Peco commented on JBIDE-7527:
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I am going to start implementing this UI as soon as the patch attached to JBIDE-7524 is applied.
I have a few questions related to the UI:

1) screen 1
I am not sure why we would search directories when starting Eclipse in a new or in an old workspace. When a directory is scanned once, we know what runtimes are contained in it. The runtimes we found when searching directories, we just could set in a new workspace. It takes a long time to scan directories and I am not sure if it would be a good solution to do it automatically (what if the user sets the root directory - starting Eclipse with JBT would significantly slow down). Maybe it would be better to add the checkbox "Add Runtimes to a new workspace". If the user would check the checkbox, we would save *.epf file in the Eclipse configuration area. When the user starts Eclipse in a new workspace, we would use *.epf file to recreate the runtimes defined in it. Recreating runtimes based on *.epf is significantly faster than scanning directories for runtimes.

If the user would add/change runtimes in a scanned directory, he could call scanning that directory manually. 

2) What do you think about adding the OK and Cancel button to the screen 2 (that is opened with the Edit action). This way we could remove the Search action and the dialog it opens. The Edit action could be renamed to Edit/Search.

3) In order to add new runtime types, we would have to create an extension point or a service.

> Automatic runtime detection
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>                 Key: JBIDE-7527
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7527
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: JBossAS
>            Reporter: Max Andersen
>             Fix For: 3.2.0.Beta2
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>         Attachments: mock_automatic_runtimedetection.bmml, mock_automatic_runtimedetection.png
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