Re: Alternative UI of Project Explorer

John Jullion-Ceccarelli <[email protected]> Thu, 22 May 2003 11:32:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Organization Sun Microsystems Czech
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Petr Jiricka wrote:
> 
> Ann Sunhachawee wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> 
> Still, I don't think this is a big problem for us, given that we have 
> the "Run J2EE Application" profile, which allows you to run a J2EE app 
> project even if a subordinate web project is currently active. So the 
> user would not be required to switch back and forth.

Not to run, but to view/open/run contextual commands on the contents of 
each of the subprojects. But I haven't seen the web apps specs, so if 
you say that it's not a problem that's good enough for me :-)

-John