Rafał, Thanks fro your suggestions. I wasn't aware there is auto completion in POM xml editor. It is very nifty and I must admit I prefer that more than working with tabs. I must have a look at the connectors and see how I could use them for my projects.
Pozdrawiam, Tomasz 2011/7/8 Rafał Krzewski <[email protected]> > ** > Regarding plugin & dependency search - did you notice how autocomplete > works in POM source editor? When you type in a groupId, you can easily > choose between available artifacts and versions, and also insert known > plugin configuration parameters. If you can't remember a groupId / > artifactId, there are insert plugin / insert dependency templates that open > a search dialog. I feel it's much faster & convenient than the removed tabs. > > > I'm sure the tabs could be added back as optional extensions, but someone > from the community would have to step up and do it :) > > Regarding the code generators support - connectors mechanism is superior to > the old mechanism, period. Someone has to write a jaxb connector, but once > it's done, everyone's builds will work rock solid, every time. My experience > with 0.12 was a that builds were breaking repeatedly for no apparent reason, > and required tedious tweaking to get them working again. No more of this > with 1.0.0! Writing a few connectors is a small price to pay, IMO. > > cheers, > Rafał > > > On 07/08/2011 04:56 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing > [email protected]https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users > >
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