So far, creating any sort of server based projects (EJB, Web App, maven war artifact), there is the notion of selecting
"the server" this project is supposed to run on / be deployed to. While this is practicable in most situations, it seems
to be a major drawback in some more "complicated" environment: In our setup, I have to deploy applications to three
different app servers - my local installment while doing development, a remote testbed system to make it accessible to
testing users, and, finally, of course, a remote production system as soon as it's ready. So far, I do so using certain
"workarounds" (different maven2 profiles along with codehaus maven-tomcat-plugin, or, as an alternative, selecting a
different server in Project Properties -> "Run" before deploying), but altogether these are indeed workarounds which
wouldn't be needed anymore given the IDE would provide an enhancement talking about deployment to different servers.



To be more accurate, I would kindly request considering an IDE enhancement like that:

- Generally, along with simple "Servers", "Server Groups" can be created in the IDE's "Services" window to reflect such
a setting of which I don't think it is uncommon - server containers of exactly the same version installed on several
hosts for development and testing purposes.

- While creating a new project (EJB, war, maven2 war artifact), instead of just selecting a "server" to run on, the user
may choose a "Server Group" as well to pay attention to these differences between the machines (local, testbed,
production). 

- Done so, after creating the project the user can choose which host to deploy to by right-clicking the project,
choosing "Deploy and undeploy..." -> "Server <name-of-machine-in-group>" which would make the IDE deploy the project to
that very host.

- Ideally, enhancing the "Server Group" idea, while working with a project the user can choose "Configuration Sets" to
be used depending on which server the application will be deployed to, i.e. having a "web.xml", "log4j.properties", ...
specific to each of the server machines copied to the right place before deploying the project.


I hardly know whether something like this is possible and/or desirable and/or interesting to someone else asides me.
However as I see this a thing to _really_ be helpful and a thing I haven't yet found in any other IDE. 

Awaiting your opinions,
Kristian