Hi Igor,

Thanks for sharing the rationale with me. I had a quick look and I can see
why the decision has been made. As long as there is convenient alternative
for the missing features I'm fine.

Cheers,
Tomasz

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]> wrote:

> As it was mentioned already, it should be possible to reintroduce
> dropped pom editor tabs via thirdparty extensions. If such extensions
> prove to be popular and of good quality we will certainly consider
> accepting them back to m2e core, provided extension's developers will be
> willing to support them.
>
> Running Maven build phases as part of project import/configuration/build
> is not coming back (see [1] for reasons why). At the same time, we
> believe that the new build lifecycle mapping framework we introduce in
> 1.0 provides much better alternative and we expect Maven plugin coverage
> improve as more m2e extensions are contributed to m2e marketplace
> catalog. Community participation is the key here, so if you are
> interested to help with JAXB POJOs or any other code generation plugin
> support, [2] provides initial pointers and we'll be happy to answer
> further questions on m2e-dev mailing list.
>
> [1] 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_**plugin_execution_not_covered<http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_plugin_execution_not_covered>
> [2] 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_**Extension_Development<http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_Extension_Development>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Igor
>
>
> On 11-07-08 6:56 PM, Tomasz Blachowicz wrote:
>
>> 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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