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A participant selected "with Existing Sources" project template when he was supposed to create a Hello world enterprise application. Because of this problem: 1 participant was slowed down during Task 2
Sounds like the user did not read the info pane or they did not know what a "with existing sources" means. This may be fixable by expanding the explination in the info pane of the first page of the project selection wizard. I can take a go at it. Assign this to me, if you want me to take a closer look at it.
John Jullion improved the project descriptions since the study. This might help, but the core problem is that this project template (with Existing Sources) is a separate project template. It should be part of "empty" project template. Changing to enhancement.
Obsolete.
I don't think this is obsolete. The problem with "with Existing Sources" wizards persists. And AFAIK, there is a long-term plan for changing new project wizards, which should fix this.
If there is "problem with 'with Existing Sources' wizards" and a "long-term plan for changing new project wizards" then it is not obvious from this issue as is and that's why I think it should be closed. I would instead file new defect issue describing what's wrong or an enhancement saying what should be improved or a task to analyze what's wrong or... But just my two cents. I'm looking at all non-defect issues for web/j2ee project areas whether there is something inspiring. This issue has been sitting there for last 3 years without any progress and it does not say anything useful. And as jrojcek said wording describing wizard purpose was improved.
Closing this, creating new issue. See #132514. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 132514 ***