[Mayfair]

We have a little problem at hand and I would like to find out if there is a solution that you recommend.

We have numerous projects under development and we utilize MyEclipse and JBoss to do our development. Most developers are better acquainted with WSAD as their IDE therefore would like a server configurtion project that they can check into a source code repository. JBoss tools and JBoss developer studio allows us to do this, but we are using MyEclipse to not start depending on another platform specific IDE after WSAD.

Our workaround so far has been to build the customized JBoss server using an ANT build script that copies over the application specific files that are required to run the app. We would also like to share the JBoss server configuration setup, JDK coniguration, validation settings etc between members of the same development team and also be able to check this in as a config project into our source code repository.

We have experimented with Preferences (.epf) exports but that doesnt seem to export the server configs etc.

Please advice.
Thanks

[Riyad Kalla]

Mayfair,
With our Pulse provisioning product (www.poweredbypulse.com) and Freelance accounts ($6/mo) for you and your team you’d be able to create software profiles (MyEclipse + JBoss IDE + whatever-you-want) and share that with your team in addition to storing your workspace preferences *and* team sets with the profile as well, so anyone else that ran it would also adopt all those settings and projects automatically… the thing is you said you already tried preference sharing and that didn’t do the trick so I’m not sure using Pulse for the prticular case of sharing JBoss-specific config files would help… unless you checked them into a project in your repo, and added them to the profile… then everyone that ran that software profile would get all those projects and the config project… maybe there is some way to address your needs using those features?

[Mayfair]

What I would like is a way to save all the workpsace specific changed that I make for my project to a preferences file. Including the Server Configuration settings. I have found certain files inside the workspace .settings folder that contains these pieces of information. Is there a possibility of a patch?

Even a direction as to what specific files contain what data as far as a workspace is concerned would be of tremendous help in building a more customized solution for this problem.

Thanks

[Riyad Kalla]

It’s something I can pass along to management and see if they will consider addressing it for sure. Right now though I don’t have a workaround for you, sorry.

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