[wtp-dev] Organizing generic servers for 1.5

[Gorkem Ercan <gercan@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

In order to be able to support a better feature structure and ease the
maintenance/updates of the different generic server plugins. I would
like to propose the following changes to the plugin structure for 1.5 
release.
1. Move all the different generic server implementations into its own
plugin. As a result we introduce two (why two? coming up in a sec.)
more plugins in addition to current websphere plugin.

org.eclipse.jst.server.generic.oc4j
org.eclipse.jst.server.generic.weblogic

After this change org.eclipse.jst.server.generic.serverdefinitions
becomes obsolete and will be removed for 1.5

2. Our current server support is for JBoss is limited to version 3.2.3
and this is an outdated version and we do not have enough resources to
maintain newer versions of the server so unless there is a good
interest to develop and maintain plugins for newer versions. I would
like to drop the JBoss 3.2.3 support.

3. Naci has stated their interest to move the JOnAS support to
ObjectWeb, most likely under Lomboz.If that is the case JOnAS will
still be present as an installable server in WTP distros, just like
Geronimo. If that is not the case, we can have a plugin
(org.eclipse.jst.server.generic.jonas) for it as well.

4. Also I would like to propose a new plugin
(org.eclipse.jst.server.installable) to hold the installable servers
as the interest for them is growing.

I think above changes will also improve the configurability of WTP.

Thanks,
Gorkem Ercan