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JSP formatting features are currently going through our internal testing process. This capability will be available in an upcoming release.
Michael
MyEclipse SupportIt would nice if you would not remove features that were working ok but upgrade them. The formatter was a nice feature that we were using in previous versions. We had to upgrade to the latest version to get around some bugs in other areas only to find a number of features we were using had disappeared. The formatter was a useful tool in the state it was in and it is too bad you have removed it.
Scott,
The JSP formatter was *not* working OK before, that is why it was removed. On some pages, it would mangle the imports in a such a way that some would be removed and other would randomly be concatonated together into a giant string. Ontop of that it would sometimes munge the page directives and <html> and <head> tag contents together, overall ruining the page. You can imagine the kind of feedback we would have gotten if someone had right clicked on their project and said “Format”… I imagine someone would have shot us.I did not realize there were issues. We did not see any problem but hopefully you get them resolved soon as it was a very useful tool and there aren’t any good replacements out there.
I hope the JSP validator gets fixed as well cause right now it is taking 10 minutes to validate a 30 line JSP file. It must be doing some incredible validation.
Well thanks for a great product and I look forward to future versions and more features and stability.
Scott
it was a very useful tool and there aren’t any good replacements out there.
Absolutely agree, formatters now fall into the “Required tools” category for keeping large projects nicely organized.
I hope the JSP validator gets fixed as well cause right now it is taking 10 minutes to validate a 30 line JSP file. It must be doing some incredible validation.
I had to re-read this sentence 3x to make sure I understood you… JSP validation consists of the following steps:
1) Run JSP page through Jasper2 to create the Servlet Java file
2) Execute javac.exe to compile the Java file into a class.So ‘validation’ of a file should not take any longer than it does for example, Tomcat to compile and display the JSP page to a user visiting the site (it should be much faster in ME). I have compiled many large files and they take about a second (Give or take) each… are you exagerating or do you honestly mean wall-clock-time it takes more than a few seconds to validate a JSP file when you save it? (or execute validation manually).
Please provide all of your Build IDs for MyEclipse (Window > Preferences > MyEclipse) and Eclipse (Help > About) as well as the JSP file in question, even 10 seconds per file is unacceptable, let alone 1 minutve, 5 minutes or 10. We would like to get to the bottom of this ASAP.
It must be doing some incredible validation.
For 10mins of validation? I wish I could point you to a 200pg whitepaper on how we do validation to explain the 10mins it takes… but I can’t 😛
