Re: Alternative UI of Project Explorer

Ann Sunhachawee wrote:

> John Jullion-Ceccarelli wrote:
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>> 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. 
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> 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. 


This is true, but the Svata's explorer behaves better also in this 
scenerio, as I have already described in the previous email.

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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.
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> 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.

This can be easily solved in the Svata's Explorer by defining new 
Look(View) e.g. (Physical View, Java Packages View and Component View).
Because of the fact that just one project is visible, user has no 
problems with switching the Views. The framework itself is very 
extensible and new
modules can add new views, e.g. EDOC view for EJB and WS project.
The current mess caused by mixing Physical View with Logical View 
(Packages Node) is very confusing for user as it was seen during UI study.
Tomas

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> -Ann
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>> -John
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