Bug 349575

Summary:	Add an option to (not) generate the manifest when adding a Facet
Product:	[WebTools] WTP Java EE Tools	Reporter:	Fred Bricon <fbricon>
Component:	jst.j2ee	Assignee:	Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cbridgha, ccc, gregory.amerson, rcernich, shr31223, stryker, thorsten.waertel
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Maven

Description Fred Bricon

2011-06-16 10:57:42 EDT

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I'm working on the m2e/WTP integration plugin. m2e-wtp 0.13.0 now uses maven-generated manifests, as announced here : http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/m2e-users/msg00692.html

Doing so, WTP-generated manifests become irrelevant, so the m2e-wtp plugin tries to guess where they are generated and delete them if necessary. That's the dirty way of getting around WTP.
The proper way would be to add a new DataModel variable that would basically tell WTP to generate the manifest for a project, or not. m2e-wtp would call something like :
IDataModel modelConfig = ....
...
modelConfig.setProperty(IJ2EEModuleFacetInstallDataModelProperties.GENERATE_MANIFEST, false);
..

Default value would be true, to keep existing behaviour 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Rob Stryker

2011-06-17 01:05:57 EDT

Fred:  If you could make a patch, I can definitely help to get it committed and approved, possibly for 3.3.1 if I can get approvals. 

Assuming you don't have the full dev environment to make a patch, if you can at least describe the few classes that changes need to be made in to give me a head start, I can definitely assist you in getting a patch made and committed. 

Ping me if you need help.

Comment 2 Chuck Bridgham

2012-09-24 14:06:48 EDT

*** Bug 281969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***