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replace current command-line switch with... a user settable Preference... a marker module...
marker module description (from Petr J) rather than asking the user to pass the -J-Dorg.glassfish.v3.enableExperimentalFeatures=true parameter, would it be possible to create a "marker" module that would be available on the update center, and the v3 plugin would detect the presence of this module, and if present, it would work the same way as the commandline switch, i.e. enabled the v3 post-Prelude support? At the time of NB 6.7 FCS release, this marker module could be published on the beta update center, which would be convenient enough for 6.7 FCS users (and would be much easier to document in blogs and tutorials), while at the same time alert them that they are using some extra non-FCS features.
user preference somewhere in the IDE (GlassFish Preferences?), not involving Update Center would be much better... Even Better, having a "GlassFish v3 EA/Beta/Promoted" category would be perfect...
> user preference somewhere in the IDE (GlassFish Preferences?), not involving Update Center would be much better... Well, I agree this is convenient, but by doing that, you are exposing non-FCS features in a FCS product.
Also, what do you mean by a "GlassFish v3 EA/Beta/Promoted" category? Do you mean a tab in the options dialog?
I agree with Petr (desc4) - this way you can easily make the product (both NetBeans and GlassFish V3) unreliable from the user's point of view. Marker module is much better solution imo.
Also agree with Petr. This is for early evaluation of very very early functionality. Don't want to expose this in FCS for all users right now as we can't guarantee the quality, only people who explicitly want to try this out should be able to do so.
http://hg.netbeans.org/web-main/rev/61c52f227701 and http://hg.netbeans.org/main/contrib/rev/2462d8be7f7f
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200904301401* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/61c52f227701 User: Vince Kraemer <vkraemer@netbeans.org> Log: #159557: add marker module to provide a similar feature as the enableExperimentalFeatures property
The marker has started to appear in the dev update center... so I consider this closed now...