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Bug 338604

Summary: Provide extension to deliver the possible list of data source in the persistence.xml editor
Product: [WebTools] Dali JPA Tools Reporter: ludo <ludo>
Component: JPAAssignee: Neil Hauge <neil.hauge>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: neil.hauge
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: EaseOfUse

Description ludo CLA 2011-03-01 18:48:44 EST 
Build Identifier: 3.6 M6 or later

Dali provides a nice GUI editor for persistence.xml
For the field <jta-data-source>jdbc/__default</jta-data-source>, it only provides a text field.
It would be nice to provide an extension that a server (for example the Glassfish server via its WTP adapter) could use to give a list of possible good values, as well as an action to call if a user wants to create a new datasource.
This list would be determined by the server target of the particular Eclipse project, (as well as the action).

NetBeans does that for example and it solves a lot of issue from a user perspective.
Of course, if the current server does not implement this extension, the editor would default to the current simple text field with no validation.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Neil Hauge CLA 2011-07-01 16:26:15 EDT 
Moving JPA specific bugs to new JPA component in bugzilla.
Comment 2 Neil Hauge CLA 2013-04-30 12:36:01 EDT 
Deferred to 3.4.