Hello all, I was thinking about project management in JDE, and wanted to
share my thoughts around.
The current project management paradigm in JDE seems to be _implicit_ : ie,
simply visiting a file in a project causes the project to be loaded. This
can be annoying; sometimes you are just visiting a file to browse around,
and -- whoops! -- JDE loaded up the associated project file.
This paradigm seems unorthodox when compared with the normal IDE project
management paradigm, which normally goes something like this:
File Menu -->
Open -->
Project -->
[ Directory Tree GUI ] -->
Select project
<<Project loads>>
Here project loading is _explicit_. Similarly, when you want to close a
project down ( with the idea of loading another ), you do a
File Menu -->
Close -->
Project
And all of the files associated with the project will disappear from the
IDE. In JDE, you _can_ do a JDE --> Project --> Load Project File, but the
buffers associated with the previous project are still lying around.
Annoying!
I guess what I'm trying to get at is it would be nice if the JDE project
manangement environment was more industry-standard IDE-like.
Cheers!
Lyle
