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Typically if StartServer is not provided we would get NPE in various places. The correct behaviour is to check for null whereever StartServer is used and decide what should be default behavior. For example if StartServer is truely optional, when it is not provided IDE should assume the server is running (somehow started manually) and continue with deployment. In case this assumption turned false, exception need to be handle gracefully. A thourough review for other optional services like IncrementalDeploy, FindJSPServlet and TargetModuleIDResolver should also be done.
Nam, does this somehow manifest itself to the user currently?
This bug would not affect any current plugins. It just make development of new plugin in initial phase harder where people trying out their initial plugin that does not yet have an implemmentation of StartServer.
Since this does not affect current users and no additional plugins are planned at this point, can this be downgraded to P4?
Will solve in 4.1 as part of effort to simplify plugin development.
does not effect current plugins -> marking as enhancement for promoF when we want to add support for more plugins
TM 5.0 -> TBD
this is really a TASK item... nnguyen - please resolve or re-assign
Reassign to default. The request was too old and code has changed, not sure if this is still applicable in current context. I recommend new reviewer close as won't fix.