Default for project facets?

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

this is feature suggestion: I just upgraded to Eclipse 4.4, which defaults to the project facet "Java 1.8". But I have just 1.7 installed here, which works fine with WildFly 8.1.

So, after importing one of my small sample projects, I always have to switch my EJB-/Web-/EJBClient-projects to Java 1.7, otherwise deployment to the WildFly server will fail with class version errors.

It would be great if I could define default facets when creating the WildFly8 server runtime - e.g. "Java 1.7", and if Eclipse would pick those facets when creating a new project or importing an existing EAR file.

But I assume this is not a JBossTools feature in first place, but a feature of the Eclipse WebToolsPlatform plugin, which whould have to provide a way to handle those defaults settings.

What do you think? Does it make sense to you at all? The problem will go away anyway when I decide to upgrade to Java 1.8 ;-).

Best regards

Wolfgang

[maxandersen]

When you create WildFly servers you can configure which JVM it should use.

Eclipse actually should be doing this all based on your default JVM  and settings so if you can outline what setup you are actually running we might be able to figure out what is going wrong.

i.e. I don't run the IDE with Java 8 and I don't see these issues....are you by any chance running the IDE with Java 8 ?

[wolfgangknauf]

It seems to happen only if I import an EAR file into projects. On creating a new project, the java facet is 1.7 as expected.

Do you think this is an WTP bug?

[maxandersen]

jdt, wtp or m2-wtp bug - depending on what kind of setup and import you got.

[wolfgangknauf]

I created an Eclipse bug report: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=442111