I'm trying to understand the use case for the "Resolve in workspace" feature. Let me take a guess at a use case and illustrate what I do now without this feature, and perhaps Nicolas or someone else can fill in how this feature could be an alternative, or whether I'm completely off-track.
Let's say I have two projects that correspond to Ivy modules: - superlibrary - superwebapp: has an Ivy dependency on superlibrary And let's say I'm working on both projects within Eclipse. I want superwebapp to pick up the changes I'm making to superlibrary without my having to republish superlibrary to the Ivy repository. With superwebapp selected in Eclipse, I would go to Project-->Properties-->Java Build Path-->Projects tab, hit the Add button, and select superlibrary. Then I would go to the Order and Export tab and make sure that superlibrary appears above the IvyDE classpath container. Is the "Resolve in workspace" feature intended to provide an alternative to this procedure, or is there another use case? When it comes to IvyDE's involvement, what value is there in the superwebapp Eclipse project knowing about superlibrary being there in the Eclipse workspace as opposed to just knowing about superlibrary through IvyDE's being able to locate the Ivy dependency in the repository? 2009/7/13 Nicolas Lalevée <[email protected]> > July 13, 2009 - The IvyDE project is pleased to announce its 2.0.0-final > release. > This is the first release considered as stable since the project as been > hosted > by the Apache Software Foundation. > > IvyDE is the plugin which integrate Ivy into Eclipse. It lets you manage > your > dependencies declared in an ivy.xml in your Java Eclipse projects. IvyDE > will > contribute to the classpath of your Java project or you can make it > retrieve your > dependencies directly into your project. Last but not least IvyDE offer > editors > of ivy.xml and ivysettings.xml files with completion. Get some preview > here: > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/screenshots.html > > Major changes in this release: > * The "resolve in workspace" feature (make IvyDE search for Ivy > dependencies > directly into the Eclipse projects) has been introduced in the last release > but was quite experimental. It has been refactored to be more reliable and > have been reported to be working like a charm by some of the IvyDE early > users. > * The IvyDE user documentation is now available directly into the Eclipse > help center. > * IvyDE can now load property files along with the Ivy settings. > > We encourage all users of IvyDE to update to this new version. > > Issues should be reported to: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE > > Download the 2.0.0-final release at: > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/download.cgi > > Or use directly the Eclipse updatesite: > http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite > > More information can be found on the IvyDE website: > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/ > > Regards, > Nicolas Lalevée > >
