MyEclipse 4.1 GA - AJAX and Web 2.0 Tools
Jan 23, 2006
...MyEclipse 4.1 GA is now available for immediate download at the MyEclipse
site (www.myeclipseide.com). This is the generally available(stable)
release of the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 4.1 series and the first
Eclipse-based IDE to support Web 2.0/AJAX development through an innovative WebTools
2.0 Tools Platform (W2TP) and uniquely integrates Spring, Hibernate and database
technologies into a single intuitive solution. MyEclipse 4.1 new features include:
- Web
2.0 Tool Platform Features (Windows only, except where noted)
- Web 2.0 Workbench - a separate workbench window that manages MyEclipse Web 2.0 tools (Pro)
- JavaScript Editor with validation and improved code-assist (All platforms)
- Integrated JavaScript debugger (Pro)
- Web 2.0 browser compatible with Mozilla (Pro)
- DOM Inspector view (Pro)
- UML Improvements
- Sequence Diagram Support
- Java->UML reverse-engineering improvements
- 10X performance increase
- Java 5 parsing support
- Visual
Web Designer
- DnD
support
- Palette to Visual Web Designer
- Snippets view to Visual Web Designer
- Editing performance improvements
- Zoom
- DnD
support
- JSF - MyFaces 1.1 support
- Spring Development Enhancements
- Bean Config Editor - improved code assist
- DnD Java class to create bean definition
- New Wizards for Spring Bean, DataSource and SessionFactory creation and editing
- Launch from Outline view
- Hibernate Development Enhancements
- New DB Reverse-engineering wizard
- Creates Hibernate mapping files
- Updates Hibernate cofniguration file
- Customize mapping strategy - select/omit columns, control
- Generate Data Objects (Java class) with optional abstract superclass
- Generate Data Access Objects (Java class) for Spring or EJB/JNDI
- Supports User-defined Velocity templates
- Auto-detect custom Hibernate dialects
- New Hibernate Mapping file editor (*.hbm.xml)
- Added MyEclipse libraries for Hibernate 2 and Hibernate 3
- DnD Java class to create bean definition
- DnD table from DatabaseExplorer to Hibernate mapping file
- New Wizards for Spring Bean, DataSource and SessionFactory creation and editing
- Launch from Outline view
- New DB Reverse-engineering wizard
- Spring/Hibernate
Integration
- AddSpringCapabilities wizard recognizes Hibernate projects and configures project for integrated operation
- AddHibernateCapabilites wizard recognizes Spring projects and configures project for integrated operation
- Reverse-engineer DB schema directly to Spring Hibernate SessionFactory
- Code generation for Hibernate DAOs will update Spring bean configuration file
- Database Explorer
- Improved driver management UI
- Improved driver configuration dialog
- Auto DB reconnection for timed out connections
- New
Image Editor
- Crop, resize, rotate, flip, scale, zoom
- Layer support
- Gradient and color tools
- 60 image filters and transforms
- Formats: GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, PSD, TIFF, TGA, PICT, PCX and RAS
- Application Server Connectors
- Toolbar action supports default server restart action
- Quick navigation to server configuration details from deployment and application server control services and appserver error dialogs
- Improved Geronimo 1.0 connector to support exploded deployment (development mode)
- Improved Oracle 10 connector to support JSP debugging (JSR-045)
Please review our New and Noteworthy and the Release Notes sections for additional details on the new features and enhancements included in this release.
Please refer to the special
instructions post if upgrading from a previous MyEclipse release. Also note
that you must download Eclipse 3.1.1 to use with the latest release. Make sure
that you have JDK 1.5 installed to use the UML Modeler on Linux and 1.4.2_05+
or JDK 1.5 for Windows. Unfortunately, due to an Eclipse
bug, our Mac users will not be able to access the UML capabilities.
