Below is a comparison matrix to illustrate what parts of JBoss Tools have been included into the various releases of Developer Studio and which additional out-of-the-box setup and software Developer Studio provides.
| JBoss Tools 2.x | JBoss Tools 3.0.x | JBoss Tools 3.1 | JBoss Tools 3.2.x (in progress)
| Developer Studio 1.x | Developer Studio 2.x | Developer Studio 3.0.x | Developer Studio 4.0.x (in progress)
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| Features: | | | | | | | | |
| Hibernate | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Seam | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| CDI (JSR-299) | | | X | X | | | X (Tooling Tech Preview) | X (Tech preview) |
| jBPM | X | X | X | X (v3 & 4) | X | X | X | X (v3 only) |
| Visual Page Editor | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| FreeMarker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Struts | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| JBoss AS | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Project Archives | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Drools | | X | X | X | | X | X | X |
| Portlet | | X | X | X | | X | X | X |
| ESB | | X | X | X | | X | X | X |
| JBoss Webservices |
| X | X | X | | X | X | X |
| Smooks | | X | X | X | | | X | X |
| Birt Integration | | X | X | X | | | | |
| TPTP Integration | | X | X | X | | | X (requires TPTP to be installed) | X (requires TPTP to be installed) |
| Maven | | | X (requires m2eclipse) | X (requires m2eclipse) | | |
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| Usage (tracking) | | | | X | | | | (X) |
| Modeshape | | | | X | | | | X |
| Teiid | | | | X | | | | X |
| Delta Cloud | | | | X | | | | |
| Setup: | | | | | | | | |
| Zip | X | X | X (deprecated) | | | | | |
| Update site | X | X | X | X | | X (since 2.1) | X | X |
| Archived Update Site | | | X | X | | | | (X) |
| Installer | |
| | | X | X | X | X |
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| 3rd Party plugins: | | | | | | | | |
| Eclipse | |
| | | X | X (3.4) | X (3.5) | X (3.6) |
| Web Tools | |
| | | X | X | X | X |
| SpringIDE | |
| | | X | X | X | X |
| TestNG | |
| | | X | X | X | X |
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| Integrated Platforms: | |
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| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | |
| | | X | X | X | X |
| JBoss SOA Platform | |
| | | | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (separate download) |
| JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform | | | | | | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (separate download) |
| JBoss Enterprise Web Server | | | | | | | X (separate download) | X (separate download) |