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
>
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