MyEclipse Usability Suggestions
Here’s your chance to influence features going into the MyEclipse CI releases!
We’re focusing on making MyEclipse awesome with new emerging technologies, amongst other cool new features. We’d like your help to hear what YOU want to see. Vote for your favorites or add your own suggestion!
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Global perspectives
I change workspaces a lot but I'd like to carry over my 'perspective' from one workspace to another, and in a seamless fashion too.
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NoSQL Perspective
Make a new Perspective just for the various NoSQL databases. You have a database viewer for relational dbs. For example, for Cassandra you would have help for all the various sub libraries such as Thrift, Astyanax and all the other flavors.
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Auto-generate builder pattern; and maybe other common patterns?
I like to use the builder pattern when I have a class with a lot of different options. However, it is tedious to type it all up, even with copy-pasting the skeleton from elsewhere.
At the very least the skeleton of the builder pattern could be easily generated automatically. But probably the whole thing could be generated as a starting point like "generate getters and setters" and "generate constructor".
If we think about it there are probably a lot of other similar things (e.g., other patterns) that could be auto-generate to save time and make things easier / overcome language…
10 votes -
Support Remote deployment and control of a GlassFish 4 Application Server
It is not possible in the current MyEclipse Blue version 12.0.0.0 to remotely deploy, source level debug, or stop and start a network instance of a GlassFish 4 service, (like you can with WebSphere) and we would very much like to see this added as a feature set.
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JSP mark occurrences
MyEclipse JSP editor does not highlight matching variables
11 votes -
control shift S should save all items, it does save all items but then it jumps to another source code tab. Highly annoying
control shift S should save all items, it does save all items but then it jumps to another source code tab. Highly annoying
1 voteScott, I have never seen this happen and we use this all the time. Do you have any additional plugins installed? They may be affecting this behaviour. If you see this consistently, do post details on our forums at: http://www.myeclipseide.com/forums
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4 votes
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More usable Maven and Git integrations. The configuraton for both is in multiple places and it's very difficult to match up to a project.
Configuring a Maven project via POM, project properties, preferences, archetype XM in metadataL, etc. gets very difficult to match to an already extant Maven project. A good, usable and complete Maven project settings which includes lifecycle mappings would help a lot.
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edit and refact js better
edit and refact js better
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8 votes
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Allow the change of Project Facets
Whenever you set your project to a certain version of a facet, MyEclipse should be able to allow you to change the version. Example. (Changing from JSF 2.0 to 2.2 facet.)
It should give you all the problems your project may have after you change so you can upgrade projects quickly.
9 votes -
format html/jsp/js better
format html/jsp/js better
30 votesI’ve filed a bug against formatting so we can take a look at how we can do better here.
This is, of course, a very vast area, so if you have specific issues and cases where formatting often fails, do post them here or on our forums: http://www.myeclipseide.com/forums
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The .metadata folder can reach titanic proportions
The .metadata folder for a moderately sized maven projects can reach almost 2GB, probably more for large projects. On a PC with a SSD and limited HDD Space that is outragous. It would be nice if that folder could be made smaller (Also a UI option to cleanup the cached files could be helpful.)
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MyEclipse Servers Enhancement
A common painful task is creating multiple named instances of the same server. I just did this for MyEclipse 2014 where I needed a WebTier instance of Tomcat and a MidTier instance, each listening on their own ports. The current MyEclipse plugin does not support this but it can be done through the Run Configuration. Actually, once I figured it out it was not to difficult but I'm sure I will have forgotten it by the time I upgrade to the next release
8 votesJim, though we haven’t touched this feature in ages – we’ve reworked our sever support in MyEclipse 2015. Doing what you describe should now be a lot more straightforward as we support multiple connectors to the same server without the need for run configurations.
The first release in our MyEclipse 2015 CI stream is here: http://genuitec.com/t/u/me2015dl
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UML module supporting or tolerating Java annotations
Round-trip Java / UML techniques are quite useful in agile projects, and basic Java beans generally work quite well - but as soon as we start using Java annotations, things get dropped / missed / messed up and must be reconciled manually.
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Better monitoring of Java heap
Although the list of running threads within a Remote Java Application in the Debug panel is great, it would be nice to allow for easier labeling of the threads from within code, memory utilization and overall better visualization in real time.
19 votes -
Keep "Exclude from validation" after project clean
Being able to select a folder, right click and select exclude from options is a great feature. It would be great for it to remain in force a project clean. After a clean, in order to make it take affect again, one needs to uncheck it and then check it again. I think this is also a problem after closing a project and reopening it.
7 votesThe behavior you describe is how “exclude from validation” is supposed to work already – I ran a few quick tests to confirm this.
If you see contrary behaviour, could you let us know for what file types you are seeing undesired validation on clean?
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Have an ability to set the default editor for JSF as the MyEclipse JSP Editor
I would like the default editor for JSF pages be the MyEclipse JSF Editor. I find the current visual edtior to be slow and does not provide additional useful content.
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Markdown editor support
Provide a WYSIWIG edtior for the Markdown format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
11 votes -
refactoring improvements
a) generate class (immutable w/constructor or mutable bean) from java interface
b) generate java interface file when methods of the class marked "final"
c) keyboard shortcuts for all source and refactoring commands, not just some of them
10 votes
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