development/news/3.1M4/server.xml

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<release
	name="3.1 M4"
	root="../../..">
	<component name="Server Tools">
		<item title="New Servers view">
			<description>
				A new <b>Servers</b> view based in the Common Navigator
				Framework has been added. In the new view the <b>State</b>
				and <b>Status</b> columns have been removed. The
				information remains displayed by default, but now using
				the <b>Server State Decorator</b>
				<a href="http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/reference/ref-decorations.htm">label decorator</a>.
				The new view will allow for further customization from
				adopters and users, the implementing of filters and the
				inclusion of other Content Providers to add included 
				data in the view.
				<br />
				<br />
				<img src="server/NewServerView.png" alt="New Servers view" />
				<br />
				<br />
				The new view can be opened from
				<b>Window > Show View > Servers (Proposed)</b>
				.
				<br />
				<br />
				<img src="server/ShowView-Servers_proposed.png" alt="Servers View (proposed)"/>
			</description>
		</item>
		<item title="Add and Remove restrictions lifted">
			<description>
				We made the UI more consistent with the API. The WTP Server Tools 
				framework has always allowed for an abstract model to be deployed
				into the server, but the UI was always associated with projects.
				That association has now been removed and the UI no longer associates
				that projects are the only deployable object into the server.   
				<br />
				<br />
				As a consequence the Add and remove label has been renamed to 
				"Add and Remove..."
				<br />
				<br />
				<br />
				<img src="server/AddRemove_dialog.png" alt="Renaming Add and Remove action"/>
			</description>
		</item>
	</component>
</release>