first of all, it never really worked. Many of the editing elements in the advanced tabs didn't do anything or did the wrong thing. Some even displayed wrong content AFAIK. Personally it leads me to believe it wasn't actually being by many (as the bug reports were not filed for it)
Then the flat 1 on 1 mapping of xml elements to form field didn't add much additional value. And there were navigational problems as well eg. when you want to see what goals got executed for a particular plugin in a particular execution, you had the select the plugin in the list, in the details select the execution and then you would see the goals. If it were in a plugin, it's one more master/detai level added .. If you were to change the configuration of the plugin, you were out of luck anyway and had to switch to xml editor for it..
We've kept what is being used by the majority of users frequently and tried to improve it. The Add dependency/plugin/parent dialog, the dependencies tab, xml editing, navigation..
Regards
Milos
On Jun 23, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Clark, Shawn wrote: Where has it all gone??? I was very upset to see that the POM editor has lost the ability to view the different elements of the pom.xml. At first I thought it was just because the “advanced tabs” option wasn’t enabled but after a few minutes of not finding the option I realized that the functionality has just been removed. I was really looking forward to the tighter integration of m2e within the Indigo release and so far I am liking everything other than the POM editor changes. There was another post to the list with a response that the other tabs were for “obscure pom.xml elements”. I thought that plugins and reporting are a primary feature of maven?!? How about the “Repositories” tab, not being able to conveniently enter the release and snapshot repositories seems essential to releasing a maven project. Then there are profiles which some development shops use fairly consistently. Please let the community know the reasoning behind the removal of these features as they were allowing for the creation of the pom.xml to be quick and efficient. Now I can’t say the same. -- Shawn Clark _______________________________________________ m2e-users mailing list m2e-users@xxxxxxxxxxxhttps://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users
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