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Customer explained how it would be nice to have a "blue-arrows" Toggle button feature parallel to the current "Yellow-arrows" Toggle button feature.Just like "Yellow-Arrows" button has the tooltip -- "link open editors with Navigator contents" , the "blue-arrows" feature can have the tool-tip "Link open editors with current logical hierarchy view item" That feature will provide the following functionality : If the user clicks on an open editor , the focus in the project explorer will go back to the logical item in the hierarchy view under the Deployment descriptor (in its Sub-tree) rather than going to the file on the file-system in the "ejbmodule" - subtree (for eg. clicking EmpLocalhome.java in editor view should go to the "EmpLocalHome" logical entity being shown in the Deployment descriptor sub-tree. The Current "yellow-arrows" feature rather makes the focus go into the "ejb module" folder and focuses on the EmpLocalHome.java file itself. ) If the above "blue-arrows" feature is made availalbe the developer never has to leave the Deployment descriptor subtree during the entire EJB project development work flow. Currently , the "yellow-arrows" feature makes the focus go back into the "ejbmodule" folder containing the corresponding .java . In situations where the EJB project might contain 100's of EJB's inside them, "ejbmodule" might contain 1000's of files including the Deploy Code etc. The user then needs to scroll all the way up to the Deployment Descriptor sub-tree to go double-click and open any other logical view item ,say another Entity bean component (eg. LocalHome or home interface etc.) The customer complained that he ends up clicking on the "collapse-all" feature in this case there by losing the whole work-flow and then has to go back to the logical hierarchy view under the Deployment descriptor sub-tree to find a particular ejb component for editing.
This is an interesting suggestion. I'd say that there is a lot of sense in it. However, the topic could be even broader: the Deployment Descriptor tree should be integrated in Mylyn's Context. I don't thing the team has enough resource to make this for 3.1, but I think this is a good idea for Google Summer of Code topic.
Kiril will try to propose this enhancement as a GSoC project.
Proposed http://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas
