Sunday, December 2, 2007

Sevilla, Eclipse, Arsenal, Bugzilla. What a team!!!

It is hard for me to say which one I find more entertaining - football or Eclipse. Because I love them both I was laying in my living room watching to the football match between Sevilla and Arsenal http://video.uefa.com/video/index.html?competition=1&season=2008&matchday=5&round=15105
and It just happened that I created a dynamic web project with WTP.

On the first page I can select the check box "Add project to an EAR". Laying in my living room with a notebook on my knees i find it "hard" to use the mouse to select a check box. But it is also "hard" to use a keyboard shortcut since there isn`t one. Can`t I create a keyboard shortcut for this checkbox?

Since I need this little feature I first try to implemented myself. I found in which plug-in is the Dynamic Web Project wizard located. Checked it out from the WTP cvs. Fixing the problem and creating a patch was really not that difficult. Testing the new functionality is of course mandatory. And what was left is just to enter a bug with the proposed patch. You can see the bug at https://bugs.eclipse.org/211126.

Well done for now. Than I returned to the football match between Sevilla and Arsenal and it was amazing that I haven`t even missed something. It took me about 10 minutes to add this small feature.

My statement is that Eclipse really has an "infrastructure", but opposed to other such "infrastructures" this one is helping me.

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