Some more usability gripes from users.
As in the last usability feedback we collected,
one of the requests is for a bundled runtime. This is being tracked by https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173923.
Will WTP 2.0 address EE5 entity bean
support? I know that Dali supports JPA, but it’s not clear to me what the
extent of our EJB support will be.
Thanks,
Jess Garms
BEA Systems
Some of this info might be not completely
accurate, as I have not followed the latest developments at webtools.
However, here are a few pointers:
Eclipse Server tooling usability:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/wtp-pmc/msg00969.html
JSR88 support missing
From my point of view the server tooling
is also strange because servers are handled like resources (create with the New
menu), not like preferences.
Other usability topics:
There are threading issues with the
structured source editors (xml, jsp, html, ...) that have been known since two
years - it seems they are getting addressed right now.
The structured source editors are quite
memory heavy.
Many of the new "state of the
art" concepts in web development are not very well supported, e.g:
- no code completion
for _expression_ language
- no jee 1.5 support for entity
beans
Another area is the pre-integration with a
server environment out of the box - making it much easier to run examples
without getting exposed the details of server configuration.