[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-17153) Provide a way to configure IDE properties remotely, supporting multiple product/project versions

[Fred Bricon (JIRA)]

Fred Bricon created JBIDE-17153:
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             Summary: Provide a way to configure IDE properties remotely, supporting multiple product/project versions
                 Key: JBIDE-17153
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17153
             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: central, discovery
    Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Beta1
            Reporter: Fred Bricon
            Assignee: Fred Bricon
             Fix For: 4.2.0.Beta2


Currently, discovery urls are defined at build time and require modifying eclipse.ini or jbdevstudio.ini for each release. This is often error prone / annoying.

Max came up with the following idea :
make all these URLs (and others if applicable) defined in one place, that we can update remotely.

So a remote properties file would contain the urls per project/product and per version. 

If we have foo|devstudio|8.0.0.Beta2=bar then : 
* devstudio 8.0.0.Beta2-123456-65432 will get bar. 
* If no matching key/version is defined, then we'd look for foo|devstudio|8.0.0
* then foo|devstudio|8.0
* then foo|devstudio|8 
* then foo|devstudio 
* then foo

That solution allows us to fine tune discovery urls per version if needed and doesn't require users/QE to mess with *.ini to test each milestone.

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/configuration/ide-config.properties would be the bundle resource master of all properties. 

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