[jbosstools-dev] New JBoss Central "Early Access"

[Nick Boldt]

Some of you may have noticed we've been working to reorganize JBoss 
Central so as to be able to present Early Access features in Central, 
well before they're ready for GA.

This is for two purposes:

a) to allow us to include experimental third-party content in JBoss 
Developer Studio, like VJET or AngularJS, which would otherwise have to 
wait a couple years incubating in JBoss Tools.

b) to provide a way to include pre-release Integration Stack tooling in 
a GA release of JBoss Tools or Developer Studio, rather than forcing 
those features to have to go GA before they can be accessed via Central.

The new UI provides a checkbox at the bottom of the connector list in 
Central, which when enabled will show you three (3) Early Access connectors:

* Eclipse VJET (the latest nightly build; formerly in Central as an 
"Experimental" connector)
* JBoss Tools Arquillian (the latest milestone build; formerly only in 
JBoss Tools)
* Angular JS for Eclipse Web Tools (the latest nightly/snapshot build; new)

If you have questions or concerns, here are some JIRAs on which you can 
comment:

* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16375 - UI for displaying EA 
content in Central
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17318 - Create Early Access site 
for JBT/JBDS
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17278 - Add AngularJS to Central 
EA site
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3056 - Provide Central EA zip for 
offline install?
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2745 - Support EA / Experimental 
/ Incubating plugins in JBDS

Here are some known issues:

* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17493 - Duplicate certification 
ids not permitted in Core and EA plugins
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17425 - scroll bar refresh problem
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17427 - button text cut off
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17474 - button text cut off
* https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2869 - 3rd party certification 
for JBDS 8.0.0.GA (incl. Central)

More issues w/ JBoss Central or the Discovery mechanism:

* 
https://issues.jboss.org/issues/?jql=assignee%20in%20%28mickael_istria%2C%20nickboldt%29%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20null%20and%20component%20in%20%28%22central%22%2C%22discovery%22%29

Cheers,

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Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
http://nick.divbyzero.com