[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-8306) Project Explorer has child node looking exactly the same as parent

[Viacheslav Kabanovich (JIRA)]

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Viacheslav Kabanovich commented on JBIDE-8306:
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Our addition to Project Explorer should since long ago look as in ProjectExplorer.png. However, at some moment, root node of our presentation was made adaptable to IProject, and after that Eclipse would not call our label provider for that node but used standard resource lable provider, which made two nodes identical.

The way (2) - Split it in several nodes - is also simple to implement, but it would mix our artificial nodes with project folders and nodes of third parties in a random way. I still think that it is good to keep our stuff under specific root node; compare with nodes 'Java Resources' and 'Java Script Resources'.

I agree to hide WebContent from our nodes, but would defend web.xml node since it gives our own representation of web descriptor which some customers may like better than what is provided by WTP.

> Project Explorer has child node looking exactly the same as parent
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>                 Key: JBIDE-8306
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-8306
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: JSF, struts/shale
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0.CR1
>            Reporter: Denis Golovin
>            Assignee: Viacheslav Kabanovich
>              Labels: usability
>             Fix For: 3.3.0.M1
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>         Attachments: ProjectExplorer.png, screenshot68.png
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> Project with Enabled JSF/Struts capabilities contains child node that looks exactly the same as parent in Project Explorer view
> !screenshot68.png!
> It contains information about configuration (web deployment descriptor, JSF/Struts configuration, taglibs, beans and etc) and resources from web root. 
> We have several way to give it a better look and usability:
> 1. (simple) find a right name/icon for it to describe content in it and remove redundant nodes from it (WebContent and web deployment descriptor, for instance, are already present under project in Projects Explorer)
> 2. Split it in several nodes to be shown as Project node siblings.

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