Re: Alternative UI of Project Explorer

John Jullion-Ceccarelli wrote:

> I think the main question is whether or not it is safe to assume that 
> one project is open at a time is a reasonable constraint. I believe 
> that the web apps team is splitting up a web apps project into lots of 
> smaller sub-projects that are included in a project group. If this is 
> the case, it may be unreasonable to force the user to switch between 
> projects all the time. 

True, if a user is working on say a J2EE app that contains a web module 
and ejb module, they will have 3 projects to work with.

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> I do like the idea of making a cleaner separation between the Sources 
> node and the Packages node. Regardless of what happens, we may want to 
> shift Sources to a different tab. I believe that when we discussed 
> this before though in a thread about how the Add Sources functionality 
> worked, Chris said that web apps projects could not have a completely 
> Physical view of their contents, but I never got the specifics.

Not sure what is meant by a "completely physical view" here. This means 
something like show all the files under each directory in a project to 
me. It's also not clear to me what would appear in a Sources tab vs the 
Packages tab. Definitely EJBs in S1S have a different approach to 
developing apps since they have a notion of a logical node that might 
correlate to multiple physical source files. The topic of what we show 
in Web module projects is currently under discussion.

-Ann

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