Hi All:
So, there's a new feature currently being developed in a CDT repo, but
with ambitions to be used throughout eclipse, and moved to somewhere
more conveinent. The feature is named "launchbar", and you can read
about it here: https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/LaunchBar
As you can see from the UI, it's intention is to streamline launching
things. Looking at it, it *does* seem like it'd be quite a nice fit for
webtools.servertools, to "debug" "MyServlet" on "Some Tomcat Server".
I've developed a proof-of-concept which seems to work quite nicely so
far, but to see it in action you'd need to have org.eclipse.remote
(which is in the ptp repo for now) and a few low-level CDT plugins that
it depends on.
I currently have my PoC over at:
https://github.com/robstryker/jbt-experimental
Is there a place in webtools for such a contribution? I'd be willing to
work with org.eclipse.remote (in the ptp repo) and org.eclipse.launchbar
(in the cdt repo) to clean up their dependencies and make this easier to
consume, but obviously only if webtools had an interest in such a
contribution.
In its shortest form, it's basically a faster and more prominent way to
execute the Run On Server action. Many users in the past have complained
it was a bit hard to find that action, and launchbar is a very obvious
way to make it more likely to grab their attention.
Unfortunately upstream APIs aren't quite what we'd consider "stable",
and are still undergoing frequent changes. The o.e.remote addition is
expected to be the next generation of RSE, and both that and launchbar
are expecting Mars to be their 1.0 release.
I'd love to hear if there's interest in such a thing, and what
requirements you'd all have as conditions (ie dep tree, etc).
- Rob Stryker
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