I can't answer these as a user, but I can answer with our intent and concrete info about JBoss Developer Studio as a developer of the project and product.

"nmatrix9" wrote:

1. How responsive is the JBoss community to paying subscribers? Myeclipse is extremely responsive in this regard.

2. Is JBDS everything you thought it would be when compared to other IDE's

3. How intuitive are the tools for JBDS, (including the JBoss
WebConsole), reverse engineering a db for a hibernate project? ER diagrams? I'm currently using glassfish application server

4. Can I import my myeclipse projects into JBDS?

5. Overall roadmap features and JBoss Developer Studio system stability how is the quality of the plugins? One thing I'm beginning to see with myeclipse is the overall plugin architecture is beginning to get unstable and slow. Because their putting everything including the kitchen sink in their implementation which may make it feature rich but every other upgrade ends up either conflicting or breaking something including previous projects.

6. HOW RELIABLE is the documentation, ONE thing I do not have patience for is sloppy documentation. Especially when I'm a paying customer. It's one thing to make a minor spelling mistake but when your tutorials are so off base that it ends up making things more confusing and frustrating for the end user. Well then I have to look else where

7. Does JBoss come with GOOD QUALITY UML or Modeling tools?

8. Does JBDS page preview for jsps and facelets projects work under linux? For myeclipse it currently does not which is frustrating me.

9. Doe JBOSS listen to their customers or take polls on what they would like to see in future JBDS features or plugins?

10. Have you ever suspected of being vendor locked in when using certain aspects of this platform?

11. Does JBDS support 64 bit architectures (I'm running Myeclipse on 64 bit CENTOS 5 with IBM JDK 6.2 x86_64)

12. Does it provide full support for the JavaEE 5 spec?

13. Does JBDS support maven?

14. What is speed and responsiveness like on JBDS on YOUR system?

15. Are the number of plugins sufficent for you to be productive and happy/satisified when working on medium to large projects? If not what would you like to see integrated into the platform?

One thing I've noticed with various eclipse implementations is "feature conflict overload". So many plugins that it ends up becoming ridiculous. Ironicly instead of making things easier with the plugin technologies it ends up making things much more harder because the plugins end up conflicting with other plugins, libraries and technologies. I've stated this in a myeclipse forum for their use of icefaces not being compatible with facelets or tomahawk. I'm looking for a Feature rich but COHERENT and FOCUSED development platform.

Any links to additional info I can look at will be greatly appreciated.

With respect to following standards and existing defacto standards we would never have done like that "one vendor" did - I would rather wait until we can do it right (hence why we haven't adapted a svn or maven provider last year because there were no clear good choice...this year that has changed ;)

Btw. with respect to tomahawk we might disappoint you in JBDS 2 since the tomahawk templates were out-of-date and very incomplete we decided to remove it until someone (hopefully from the tomahawk community) would be able to come and maintain/refresh it.

"nmatrix9" wrote:
7. Does JBoss come with GOOD QUALITY UML or Modeling tools?