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Final Milestone for MyEclipse 4.0 - Includes Split-Screen Web Designer, UML Reverse Engineering, & New Application Server Connectors


15Aug2005

...The third milestone release for the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench version 4.0, is now available for immediate download. This release introduces a number of new features including full round trip UML development, new visual Web Designer, expanded application-server connector support for Weblogic 9, Websphere 6 and Geronimo 1.0 and a number of platform enhancements. MyEclipse 4.0 M3 includes the following features and enhancements:
  • Full round trip UML development
    • Reverse-engineer UML class diagrams from any MyEclipse J2EE project or Eclipse Java project
      • Batch process reverse-engineer any combination of project, source-folder, Java package or individual class
      • Drag-n-drop any Java class or interface from the Eclipse PackageExplorer view onto any UML class diagram
      • Customizable reverse-engineering preferences
    • Drag-n-drop any UML artifact from the Outline view onto any compatible UML diagram
    • Auto-layout option for class diagram
    • Comprehensive Undo support for all operations
  • New Visual Web Designer for WYSIWYG HTML/JSP development:
    • Multiple page editor for source, visual design, split-screen source-design and preview Modes
    • Visually layout and size HTML, JSF and Struts UI controls
    • Real-time synchronization between design and source modes
    • Collapsible palette with 50+ design wizards for the creation of new web UI controls
    • Custom form-based property editors integrated with Properties View
    • Drag-and-drop and copy/cut/paste UI controls and visually represented source artifacts
    • Visual controls depict fly-over details of the underlying source code
    • Design mode support for CSS styles
    • Code completion of elements and attributes
    • While-you-type and file save validation with Problems view support
    • Auto-correction support of JSP imports
    • Special support for default tag namespaces when editing JSP fragments that lack explicit
    • Show/hide non-visual tags in Visual Design Mode
  • An enhanced version of the Spring IDE
    • New "Add Spring Capabilities" wizard
    • Included Spring Framework 1.2.3 and all dependent libraries to support the "Add Spring Capabilities" process
    • New MyEclipse Spring Libraries
    • Enhanced Spring IDE features include:
      • Bean View
      • Bean Graph View
      • Integrated MyEclipse XML editor default bean configuration editor
      • Bean file validation
      • 'S' character decoration for Spring enabled projects
    • Spring Framework Developer Manual
    • Spring IDE Developer Manual
  • Expanded Application-Server Connector Support for Weblogic 9, Websphere 6 and Geronimo 1.0
  • MyEclipse Platform Enhancements including:
    • Modularized MyEclipse feature-sets for independent update
    • Configurable MyEclipse feature-sets allowing users to configure the Eclipse desktop to show/hide the MyEclipse feature-sets using the Eclipse "capabilities" facility.
    • New deployment option allowing the MyEclipse Deployer to overwrite existing resources with their newer instance

Please review our New and Noteworthy section for additional details on the new features and enhancements included in this release.

Final release for MyEclipse 4.0 should be available August 29th, 2005.


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