[Murali Krishna Devarakonda]

I’m using JBoss 3.2 with Eclipse 2.1.2 and MyEclipse 2.8 Beta1.
I have disabled JBossIDE- I know the history of the incompabilities between MyEclipse and JBossIDE, and also have come to understand that I “don’t need” JBossIDE (presumably because I do everything I could with MyEclipse menu options).

However, JBossIDE used to allow me to create multiple configurations for my JBoss 3.2 Server.

In my work environment, we create and maintain multiple versions of our server, starting by making a copy of the ‘All’ configuration from the JBoss Server directory, and rename it to, say, ServerVersion1, ServerVersion2, etc. I have to be able to pick ServerVersion1, ServerVersion2, etc. which is what I used to with Eclipse+JBossIDE.

I know I can go into Window>Preferences>MyEclipse>Application Servers>JBoss3 and set the ‘Server Name’ to ServerVersion1 or ServerVersion2.

But that is a whole lot more inconvenient. It would be nice if MyEclipse would allow me to create multiple JBoss3 configurations (as I could in JBossIDE) instead of only for JBoss3. The idea is that then I could pick ‘MyEclipse-DeployTools-JBoss3-ServerVersion1>Start’ or
‘MyEclipse-DeployTools-JBoss3-ServerVersion2>Start’ from the toolbar.

How can I do it? If you currently don’t have the ability to let me do that, when can you implement it? It’s a very important requirement for us.

Also, we could also do remote debugging by creating a remote configuration simply by pointing to a remote server’s IP and Port number.
How can I do that in MyEclipse?

[Riyad Kalla]

See this thread for remote debugging (last post): https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/can-i-debug-on-a-remote-websphere-app-server/&highlight=remote+debugging

[Murali Krishna Devarakonda]

Riyad,

The question about Remote debugging was a minor aside, almost an afterthought. While I appreciate your quick response to that question, I’d really appreciate it if you can provide me with an answer (better yet, a solution) to my main question.

Thanks,
Murali

[Riyad Kalla]

Murali,
You are correct in your assessment that you cannot do this now, we have had requests in the past and present to allow multiple same-server-deployments but never multiple configs.

As far as when this can get done, all of our development is based on user feedback. If one person tells us they need a JNDI browser and 20 people tell us they need Hibernate support, our priority will shift to implementing Hibernate support. And considering that we don’t just release a new feature and then sign off on it; every new feature we add is followed up by months of tweaking and feedback from our users.

With that in mind, if this poll shows a huge interest in what you are asking for, that will of course turn our attention to addressing the issue ASAP. However, if a large enough company (read: large amount of subscriptions) is interested in a feature we are always willing to talk about what needs to get done and address their needs.

In the mean time I’m going to ask another person to check out this thread and give their perspective/assessment of it as I might be offtrack on some of the things I said (maybe some upcomming development featuers might help you out).

[Riyad Kalla]

Murali,
An update for this: We’ve talked about it and the short answer is that this is very low on our priority list. This is our first request for this feature which comes behind a wake of a large amount of very high profile/high demand functionalities that we need to focus on for the current and future releases.

But as I said, if this polls speaks otherwise and there is a very high demand for this functionality, then we will definately look at it again.

[Murali Krishna Devarakonda]

Riyad,

Thanks for your input. (I was waiting for an email to notify me that this thread had been updated- apparently checking “Notify me when a reply is posted” only lets me know for the first response I get but not for any subsequents replies to the same thread).

I hope you’ll get around to implementing in soon enough as it’s a feature that’s available in the original JBossIDE plugin and seems like a pretty simple thing to do. I want to emphasize that the requirement is only to be able to create multiple configurations and be able to pick one of them to run depending which version I want to work on (almost trivial to do given that you already have ability to store multiple configurations already- except that each is pointing to a different server product/version).

We’re *not* asking for the ability to be able to run them simultaenously (a bit more complicated, certainly not trivial and not supported by any IDE I know- at least not by WSAD).

Thanks,
Murali

[Riyad Kalla]

“Notify me when a reply is posted” only lets me know for the first response I get but not for any subsequents replies to the same thread).

Actually it should reply you always… atleast it does me. Sometimes it can be flaky, but we updated our forums and it should be working fine now.

You can go here: http://www.myeclipseide.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=profile&mode=editprofile and edit your profile to turn on reply notification by default I believe.

[MatzLE]

Hi,

this feature would be very useful: For example – we’re using different versions of jBoss (3.2.3 and 3.2.5) and we’d like to have the ability to have configurations for each of these versions. We’re maintaining older releases which can’t be ported to 3.2.5 so ATM we have to change the MyEclipseIDE appServer-configuration everytime we’re switching project context.
Come on that can’t be so hard =).

Regards,

Matthias

[Riyad Kalla]

Guys,
This now falls under the “multiple server instances” request we have filed, which falls under the “restructure server config/launching” which we are talking about internally.

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