Bug 424317 - Project with packaging type "pom" should show children modules in navigator
Summary: Project with packaging type "pom" should show children modules in navigator
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: m2e (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2013-12-18 05:51 EST by Mickael Istria CLA
Modified: 2021-04-19 13:25 EDT (History)
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Description Mickael Istria CLA 2013-12-18 05:51:09 EST 
Similarly to what NetBeans does, it would be useful when a project is a Maven project with packaging "pom" to show children modules in navigator. So under the Maven project we'd have:
* Modules, which would provide some additional action such as "Open as project in workspace", "Remove module". Modules could behave like plain folders (showing children resources). They would probably have another icon
* Folders that are not modules, just like normal folders
* Files
Comment 1 Igor Fedorenko CLA 2013-12-18 07:34:25 EST 
It'd be nice to have other parts of maven mode exposed to project navigator too, things like resources folders, main vs test, for example. 

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Comment 2 Mickael Istria CLA 2013-12-18 09:09:15 EST 
FYI, here is how it looks like in Netbeans: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/maven_hierarchical_view_for_netbeans
Comment 3 Fred Bricon CLA 2015-02-03 11:02:50 EST 
Can we consider this one is superceded by bug #427768 (Nested projects in Projects view)?
Comment 4 Mickael Istria CLA 2015-02-03 11:07:13 EST 
(In reply to Fred Bricon from comment #3)
> Can we consider this one is superceded by bug #427768 (Nested projects in
> Projects view)?

I hope that bug #427768 provides a better user experience with Maven and modular project in general, so that this changes shouldn't be useful any more.
So closing as WONTFIX.
Comment 5 Denis Roy CLA 2021-04-19 13:25:47 EDT 
Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/