Where is the Services Tool in 2019.2

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There's a new Services Tool in 2019.2 mentioned in the "What's New" but I can't seem to find it in 2019.2? My server and run configurations seems to behave precisely as they did in 2019.1 and there's no "Services" option available in the View -> Tool Windows menu.

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Yaroslav Bedrov

Hello,

It'll be shown if you have Database, Docker or Application Server configuration in your project. Run/debug configurations are not listed in the Services tool window by default. You need to explicitly specify which types of configurations you want to be available: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/services-tool-window.html#run-configs

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Well that was very well hidden, I would never have figured that out!

Has anyone actually tried to add multiple configurations to Services using the current UI? Since the "Add Configuration Type" dialog disappears each time a configuration is added it's quite an infuriating experience.

Thanks for the quick reply!

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Hum... testing to add "JBoss Server" and Maven to Services results in some strange behaviours:

  • JBoss Server - Its is possible to start a server configuration using Services but there's no output ( console ) and It's not possible to Stop the started server using Services since the Stop button is disabled ( the old Stop button in the Toolbar still works ). If I select the started server in the Services window the part of the Services windows that shall contain the output/console just displays "Configuration not started", though the started server has a small green "Running" icon on it in the Services window and the small green "running" indicator on the Tool Window Bar is lit.
  • Maven - Running Maven configurations through Services Window shows no output ( console ), the only indication that something is running is the little green light on the Services icon in the Tool Window Bar . It gets even more confusing when a Lifecycle phase is double clicked in the Maven tool when there's no output ( console ) but the build is actually running in the background.

After a restart of IntelliJ using "JBoss Server" and Maven in the Services window seemed to work. Sadly it only worked for a short while and now I have no output from Maven builds again.

Services Tool looks promising but it feels like it's not really ready for release yet.

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The problems with Maven seems to already be reported: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-216390

Created an issue for the JBoss problem: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-219253

 

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Yaroslav Bedrov

Thanks for reporting issues on YouTrack!

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