Right now I install the sysdeo plugin along side ME so I have a single button to click to restart Tomcat while I’m developing. I would need this plugin at all if ME provided this functionality, and here was a thought I had on how it would work:
Right now to start/stop the app server, you click the server button arrow, and it drops down a list, to select the app server then you choose Start/Stop. I’m wondering if you can make this control a combination of a combobox (app server list) and then a combo button/dropdown button next to it. The button, when clicked would perform a restart, OR do the opposite of what it did last time (toggle) and the drop down arrow next to it would give you the options of “Start/Stop”. So it would look something like this:
[ Tomcat 5.0 ][v] [GO][v]
|Tomcat 4.1 | |Start|
|Tomcat 4.0 | |Stop|
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Even though that is the best ASCII art I’ve ever done in my life, the idea is that the first control is a combo box, and the second control is that Button/Dropdown combo that Eclipse likes to use. The things below them are the dropped down menus 🙂
OR, just add another button that looks like a recycle sign that restarts the server…