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Bug 320940

Summary:	Deployment Assembly:Referenced Projects Classpath Entries in EAR project
Product:	[WebTools] WTP Java EE Tools	Reporter:	Neeraj Agrawal <nagrawal>
Component:	jst.j2ee	Assignee:	Rob Stryker <stryker>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	andrey.melentyev, cbridgha, ccc, manderse
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	3.3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Neeraj Agrawal

2010-07-26 13:37:50 EDT

Build Identifier: 

"Referenced Projects Classpath Entries" in EAR project does not bring any value since EAR is not a java project. In my opinion the option should be removed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Max Rydahl Andersen

2010-07-28 03:19:45 EDT

Not sure I follow - the aggregating project does not have to be a java project to have project references to other java projects.

Comment 2 Neeraj Agrawal

2010-07-28 09:20:37 EDT

OK, but once you choose that option in EAR the dialog which pops up doesn't let you select anything.

Comment 3 Neeraj Agrawal

2010-07-28 09:52:21 EDT

So, i created EAR with EJB, Web projects

So now if I select Web project and select that option, i cannot choose EJb project either.

Comment 4 Carl Anderson

2010-07-28 11:34:55 EDT

Assigning to Rob for initial investigation.

Comment 5 Rob Stryker

2010-07-29 08:22:19 EDT

"Referenced Projects Classpath Entries" is currently the only UI to modify the .classpath file and add the properties / attributes that allow child projects to have references consumed by the ear. 

For example, if you have a web project with jars in it that need to "live" in the EAR, you must modify the .classpath file's attributes to add the custom tag which tells the EAR to pull those elements up. 

If we remove this UI, there then becomes zero UI to modify / add / remove this classpath attribute.  Until these issues are worked out, we are unable to remove this UI.

Comment 6 Neeraj Agrawal

2010-07-29 09:53:17 EDT

OK, i understand. But the current UI doesn't convey any information when that option is choosen.

Comment 7 Carl Anderson

2010-09-23 14:07:26 EDT

Rob, since 3.2.2 is declaring, I am retargetting to 3.2.3.  Please retarget as appropriate.

Comment 8 Rob Stryker

2011-01-20 15:31:03 EST

Retargeting old bugs... i'd be glad to have more discussion on this topic though if you have a better idea for UI

Comment 9 Rob Stryker

2011-06-02 04:08:51 EDT

This bug is out of date. The UI element in question is no longer present.