I know this have happened in the past (weblogic and WebSphere did similar I think) and I'm for removing it just because these are very much out of date.
But I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worth it adding a mechanism In WTP if it finds a non matching server type that the quick fix could somehow lookup alternatives or provide action/quick fix to launch the "download additional adapters" ? /max (sent from my phone) > On 07/02/2014, at 04.20, Gorkem Ercan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I have received a request[1] for removing the generic server adapters for > JBoss servers. The generic server definitions for JBoss are not really > updated anymore and have several issues. Also, we do not cover the latest of > the JBoss servers. JBoss already provides better quality and up to date > server adapters for all JBoss versions including the ones we cover. These > adapters are also open source under EPL. > > Generic servers, in the early days of WTP, were a great tool for providing > easy and good enough server integration but now that most servers have full > adapters, I think we need to think about deprecating at least servers that > have an adapter with a compatible license that covers the same versions of > servers. > > Unless you see a big problem with this, I would like to retire JBoss Generic > servers in the next release. > > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=427598 > > -- > Gorkem > _______________________________________________ > wtp-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev
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