Hi there, I've been using M2Eclipse feature with my Eclipse IDE for last year or so on daily basis and I always were very happy with the tool. Today I decided to upgrade to Indigo bundle and new m2e feature and I must say I'm disappointed, because many of the useful features of M2Eclipse 0.12 (last of releases managed by Sonatype) has been dropped in m2e 1.0 release. Igor Fedorenko in his e-mail today has kindly mentioned that some tabs and features has been removed and the team has decided to concentrate on other useful features. I don't really agree this was good idea and there is certainly a good few features that I'll be missing:
* The plug-in tab with search for plugins (How many of you actually remember the full name of jaxb plugin and it's latest version?) and really great support for custom plugin configuration. That was great simplification for me and I believe other users working with complex pom files. * New dependency tab is not great. In the M2Eclipse 0.12 one could got to editing of the artifact details in the right pane just by clicking on the artifact on the list. Now the new pop-up window appears to do the same. * The graphical representation of dependencies was nice feature. Maybe not for large projects, but still quite useful. I'll be missing this feature. * In M2Eclipse 0.12 there was possibility to run specific goals on project import and project configuration update. I found this very, very useful when working with projects that generate code. By calling goals automatically I stayed assure that all my generated classes (e.g. JAXB POJOs) are up-to-date and the project compiles fine just after import. I'd like to highlight that I really appreciate the hard work you guys doing there and I'm really happy that Maven integration has become top-level project in Eclipse finally. However dropping features/plugins that advanced users like myself have been using extensively is not the best idea in my view. Is there any chance to bring the dropped features back to m2e? Regards, Tomasz Blachowicz
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