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"JBoss Tools 3.2 is Finally here!"
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h4. 3.2.0
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I'm very happy to be able to announce that we pushed out JBoss Tools 3.2 to the
servers shortly before the weekend.
h2. Installation/Upgrade
Existing Eclipse Workspaces used with JBoss Tools 3.1 will work with JBoss Tools 3.2, but
do take a backup of your workspace to be on the safe side.
As per tradition the updatesite is now moved over to a stable location
http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/helios/
To "upgrade" from JBoss Tools 3.1 to JBoss Tools 3.2 you need to install Eclipse
3.6 and add the updatesite. Updating Eclipse major versions via updatesite does sometime
work, but we do recommend a clean install to make it all a bit cleaner.
If you don't like messing with updatesites you can also install JBoss Tools 3.2 via
Eclipse Marketplace - simply use *Help > Eclipse Marketplace* directly from Eclipse and
find JBoss Tools 3.2 (Helios) via the Search facility.
h2. New Features
The following paragraphs outlines the highlights from the JBoss Tools 3.2 release, but I
recommend reading the complete
http://docs.jboss.org/tools/whatsnew What's New lists if you want to see all the
noticable changes and improvements that have been made since JBoss Tools 3.1.
h3. JSF 2
The Visual Page Editor and our XHTML structured editors now supports JSF 2; especially the
notion of composite components which is a new feature of JSF 2 allowing users to much
easier define reusable components for their application or framework.
JSF 2 also provides a new standardized approach to load up resources via the classpath and
web archives; these are all supported by JBoss Tools making the visual page editor render
even more realistically the layout of the page but also code completion, navigation and
even quickfixes now benefit from this additional information to make it easy to fix issues
and navigate to the linked resources instantly.
h3. Context & Dependency Injection (CDI)
The CDI tooling have received a lot of updates, especially in context of providing
validations of all the error handling cases covered by the CDI TCK test suite and a few
other hints provided by the Weld CDI Team.
There is also a good set of wizards, code navigations and quickfixes added in this release
and I recommend you go read
http://community.jboss.org/community/tools/blog/2011/01/31/overview-of-co...
Alexey Kazakov's blog about this feature set.
h3. Visual Page Editor
Besides supporting JSF 2 better in this release various other improvements were done to
the Visual Page Editor.
* Templates for jBPM, Spring and Richfaces 4 were added/improved
* DocBook support were made more complete and is now a separately named editor
* A generic "Split-Editor" functionallity were added (can be used with any
Eclipse editor)
* The UI were cleaned up to fit better into the Eclipse IDE
h3. Servers, Packaging & Remote Deployment
The biggest new feature for the Application Server integration in JBoss Tools 3.2 is the
introduction of Remote Deployment.
Remote Deployment works (more or less) just like the Local deployment except instead of
using local file copies we now relay the file transfer to the Eclipse Remote System
Explorer API; this then allows you to deploy to systems via SSH, FTP, etc.
This Remote Deployment not only works for the JBoss Application Server adapters but is
also provided via the "Deploy Only" server meaning you can use it to deploy any
project to any application server or system which supports hotdeployment by scanning their
local file system for changes.
We've also improved support for "non-WTP" style projects by enabling you to
right click Folders and mark them as Deployable. These deployable folders can then be
deployed to any of the Server adapters provided by JBoss Tools, including the Deploy Only
server.
The JBoss Server Adapter now also supports the new JBoss 6 and updated versions of JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform based servers.
h2. Automatic Runtime Detection
One of the big hassles of any IDE configuration is to identify and configure your various
runtimes, such as JBoss Application Server, Seam, jbpm, ESB, Drools, JDK's etc.
We've contributed the installer logic from our JBoss Developer Studio 4 product into
the actual JBoss Tools plugins and enhanced it so it can be configured to scan one or more
directories at startup for new runtimes; if it detects a new runtime it will ask if it
should add it and JBoss Tools will do a default installation of the runtime - freeing you
from having to go through the various runtime user interfaces.
This feature is available under Eclipse Preferences in *JBoss Tools > JBoss Tools
Runtime Detection*
In the future we plan to add more runtime detections, not just JBoss based ones.
h3. Google GWT (Experimental)
Google's Eclipse plugin for GWT does not provide seamless integration with Eclipse WTP
based projects; thus we made an Eclipse Facet that allows you to easily enable Google GWT
on your WTP project and not having to use custom wizards and special projects to get
started with the Eclipse GWT tooling.
Please note that since Google are not providing stable named features from their
updatesite to have Eclipse updatesites work together, it is necessary to install Google
GWT plugin manually before trying to use our Google GWT facet.
See
http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-15593 Andre's article on how to use this
Google GWT feature.
h3. DeltaCloud (Experimental)
The tooling for Delta Cloud provides a perspective and a few views to easily interact with
systems such as SteamCannon that provide a DeltaCloud API.
This gives you the ability to browse, start & stop virtual machines hosted by cloud
service providers such as EC2 and Rackspace.
You can try it out by using
https://try.steamcannon.org/deltacloud/api
https://try.steamcannon.org/deltacloud/api as the URL for a Delta Cloud connection.
Note, DeltaCloud tooling is marked experimental while the DeltaCloud API and
implementations are stabilizing. If needed we will provide an update to support the
latest/stable DeltaCoud servers.
h3. Maven
We've continued to expand the support for Maven projects by extending m2eclipse
tooling to automatically configure projects based on the dependencies of your project.
Thus now if you import or configure a Maven based project and it uses a standard
dependency for either Seam, CDI, JSF, Hibernate or GateIn/Portal the features for these
frameworks will now be enabled and configured automagically.
You can control this per framework under Eclipse Preferences via *JBoss Tools > JBoss
Maven Integration*
To see an example of this applied, look at
http://community.jboss.org/community/tools/blog/2011/02/21/getting-starte...
Snjezana's blog where she illustrate how via Project Examples you can easily get
started with the CDI and JSF tooling. This blog works because of the Maven Integration
provided here.
h3. Modeshape
Modeshape provides a JCR based view on many different datasources such as file systems,
databases, other JCR repositories and even your own services and applications.
The Modeshape tooling provided in JBoss Tools 3.2 gives you a way to easily connect to a
Modeshape server, browse it content and checkin/checkout content from and to the Eclipse
workspace.
h3. Teiid Designer
The Teiid Designer that is used to visualize model your datamodel and transformations as
supported by the Teiid runtime is now included into JBoss Tools.
The Teiid Designer plugins also provides a testbed for testing and exploring your Teiid
configured dataservices.
You can read more about Teiid Designer on its
http://www.jboss.org/teiiddesigner
community page.
h3. BPEL
The BPEL tooling is based on the Eclipse BPEL project but provides a set of bugfixes and
features that have not yet made it back to the Eclipse BPEL project, especially in context
of supporting deployment to other systems than Tomcat based systems such as Apache ODE. We
support the Riftsaw JBoss based BPEL system.
If you want to read about the BPEL feature set and its future (its fixes are being
contributed back to
Eclipse.org) you can read
http://community.jboss.org/community/tools/blog/2011/01/24/bpel-technical...
Bob Brodt's blog about this.
h3. WebServices
We've added some much simpler wizards for creating JAX-RS or even JAX-WS webservices
to the tooling; but even more interesting is the new Webservice Tester UI which gives you
a view to easily query a SOAP or REST based webservice and introspect its result.
Brian Fitzpatrick wrote a
http://community.jboss.org/community/tools/blog/2011/02/08/tools-tools-tools couple of
http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-15778 blogs
http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-15749
about it, giving you an overview of the new improvements for the WebServices support.
h3. Usage Reporting
When you install a JBoss Tools plugin, on the first startup of Eclipse a dialog will ask
if you wish to send anonymous usage data to us. We use that information to see which
OS's, system configurations and plugins you are running plus we get to see how fast
(or slow) new versions of spreads over the world.
h3. ...and much more...
The above highlights are just a subset of the over 1600 issues fixed and implemented over
the last many months thus the best way to get to know it all is to try it out :)
Let us know how it goes and above all,
Have fun!
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