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Bug 349575

Summary: Add an option to (not) generate the manifest when adding a Facet
Product: [WebTools] WTP Java EE Tools Reporter: Fred Bricon <fbricon>
Component: jst.j2eeAssignee: Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: cbridgha, ccc, gregory.amerson, rcernich, shr31223, stryker, thorsten.waertel
Version: 3.3Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: Maven

Description Fred Bricon CLA 2011-06-16 10:57:42 EDT 
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I'm working on the m2e/WTP integration plugin. m2e-wtp 0.13.0 now uses maven-generated manifests, as announced here : http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/m2e-users/msg00692.html

Doing so, WTP-generated manifests become irrelevant, so the m2e-wtp plugin tries to guess where they are generated and delete them if necessary. That's the dirty way of getting around WTP.
The proper way would be to add a new DataModel variable that would basically tell WTP to generate the manifest for a project, or not. m2e-wtp would call something like :
IDataModel modelConfig = ....
...
modelConfig.setProperty(IJ2EEModuleFacetInstallDataModelProperties.GENERATE_MANIFEST, false);
..

Default value would be true, to keep existing behaviour 

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Rob Stryker CLA 2011-06-17 01:05:57 EDT 
Fred:  If you could make a patch, I can definitely help to get it committed and approved, possibly for 3.3.1 if I can get approvals. 

Assuming you don't have the full dev environment to make a patch, if you can at least describe the few classes that changes need to be made in to give me a head start, I can definitely assist you in getting a patch made and committed. 

Ping me if you need help.
Comment 2 Chuck Bridgham CLA 2012-09-24 14:06:48 EDT 
*** Bug 281969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***