I was glad to see this project proposal, but have a few questions that
don't appear to be in scope based on the proposal. Are there guidelines
or standards on how workspaces can be packaged/shared? My usecase is that
I have a set of features/plugins to roll out to some new users. I'd like
to get them started as soon as possible with a configuration that is tuned
to a new user. Examples of some things included; other s/w distributions
like the JDK and Tomcat, a sample project so people can kick the tires on
the plugins, and some customizations like having some snippets
prepoulated. Is there something better than workspaces to manage this?
We fixed the location and included the workspace, but this isn't very
flexible. We didn't want to force the users through steps like updating
the preferences to point to the proper location for the Tomcat
installation and change the project properties to set JSF library
references. How is this handled elsewhere? Installing the workspace and
then making changes for a new install location appeared to be messy.
Importing the projects didn't do the trick because the users would still
have a decent amount of configuration to take care of on their own.