[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-2923) Verify whether JBDS really needs PDE

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBDS-2923:
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[~maxandersen] I asked for investigation around the removal of PDE, so just for the posterity, I can provide some arguments about why I opened this ticket:
* I wasn't aware that OSGi development is something we do actually want to support in JBDS. (it's actually because there are some -around 0.1% maybe ;) - people doing Web Development with OSGi that Eclipse JEE is shipped with PDE too)
* I just thought PDE might be there just because it has been implemented like that or to re-use some basic of its APIs that might be avoidable.
* The cost of PDE is that the application is more complex, has more menus and more features than what our average users (JEE/Mobile/Web developers) may need. So for those who don't use PDE features, adding PDE actually reduce the quality of the application.

But I'm fine with keeping it, since it is something we seem to actually want.

> Verify whether JBDS really needs PDE
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>                 Key: JBDS-2923
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2923
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: build
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Alexey Kazakov
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 8.0.0.Beta2
>
>
> It looks like by default, JBDS embeds PDE and its UI contributions, which are totally off-topic.
> We should consider removing PDE. For this we need to check what depends on it first.



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