Bug 123465

Description nicola guidotto 2006-01-11 12:05:47 EST

Currently the support for variable is usefull, but sometime I'm looking for something like that the variable value can be a variable too, late resolving.
I mean, consider the case where you must have the following variable TOMCAT_5_0 and TOMCAT_5_5, rapresenting your environment, but you configure a set of projects to use a variable named TOMCAT, valued as TOMCAT_5_0. When you need to switch to TOMCAT_5_5 you change only the TOMCAT value in only one place, updating all the project set accordingly.
I use a lot of variable for "relative" resource, and I feel the need of this feature enhancement.

Another refinement I like to find in the "New variable" dialog, may be a text field  where I can optionaly describe the meaning of the cryptic variable names, e.g. M2_REPO stands for MAVEN_2_LOCAL_REPOSITORY.
And obviously, the relative variable list may be optionaly shows a description column too.
This may be applied to "classpath variables", "linked resources" and any other fauture where a variable could be defined and used.

Thanks, in advance.

PS: I apologize for my bad eglish.