Why two server names?

[xmedeko]

Hi, I have also noticed that in my org.eclipse.wst.server.core/server.xml I have entries sometimes entries like

<server hostname="localhost" id="JBoss 5.0 Standart Server" name="JBoss 5.0 Standart localhost" ...

Note the different values for the server "id" and server "name". Is it right? I think it is from older (beta) release of the 3.0 tools. Now, when I make a new JBoss server, it has the "id" and "name" attributes with the same value. Anyway, the "New JBoss wizard" asks me twice to enter the "Server name", but only the secondly entered name appears in the server.xml as the value of the attributes "id" and "name". Is there any reason, why the wizard asks twice for the "Server name" ?

[rob.stryker]

Hi xmedeko.

Yes, you're correct in noticing this ;) For some reason, WTP changed it so that server id and name are always the same now. This is, of course, a bit problematic.

As for seeing a request for name twice, this reason was also a WTP change in some part. They added a naming box to the first page of the wizard, but due to a bug, they didn't let the server adapter (ie, jbosstools) to set the default name properly.

Before this they didn't have a box on the first page asking for a name, and so we had one on our own new server page. Then they added it to the front page but did it incorrectly.

The bug ID for this is:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=263928

[rob.stryker]

Also:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=261306