MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench Release Notes

Release 4.1 Milestone 1 - November 7, 2005

Overview

Version 4.1M1 (ME 4.1M1) is the first milestone release of the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 4.1 series.   This release introduces many new features, as well as, resolves a number of issues in the former 4.0.3 version.

New Features introduced in MyEclipse 4.1M1

  • Initial UML Sequence Diagram Support (Technology Preview) - Look for further improvements for sequences diagrams in 4.1 Milestone 2.
  • Drag-and-drop support from Palette to Visual Web Designer
  • Drag-and-drop support from Snippets view to Visual Web Designer
  • Spring/Hibernate Project Capabilities Integration
    • Reverse-engineer DB schema directly to Spring Hibernate SessionFactory
    • New Bean, DataSource, SessionFactory wizards
  • Spring Bean Editor
    • New grid mode
    • Create new bean definitions by drag-n-drop Javabean class from Package Explorer onto editor
    • New Spring mode for Outline View - depicts Spring specific structure of a bean XML file and provides editing actions
  • New Hibernate Mapping Editor and custom Outline View
  • Zoom ability in Visual Web Designer
  • Added Quick Launch/Relaunch toolbar action

New Enhancements

ID Feature Notes
418 Added option for server restart Added functionality that defaults the server toolbar drop-down menu's action to restart the most recently launched server.
1568 Added Zoom action to Visual Web Designer toolbar      
2667 Added new Linux shortcut Seelink for details.
2711 Palette items can be  dropped onto the Visual Web Designer      
2737 Snippets view  items can be dropped onto the Web Designer.      
2764 [Spring] Added outline view for Spring bean config editor
2765 [Spring] Added assistance when creating bean definitions Seelink for details.
2767 Added localization support to the Web Designer JSP preview.
2775 [Spring] Added create/edit support for bean definition
2776 JSF: Class DnD to the config editor now  opens the managed bean wizard.
2777 [Spring] Added create/edit support for data source definition
2778 [Spring] Added create/edit support for Hibernate SessionFactory definition
2796 DnD class from the package explorer to the Spring config editor now opens New Spring Bean wizard

Problems Fixed Since v4.0 GA

ID Defects - FIXED Notes
 1433 Update the Eclipse CVS resource mapping for MyEclipse temp files to TEXT   See link for details.
1640 XML formatter not working when file not terminated with new line
2560 Improved UML properties view screen real estate mgmt.  
2618 Hibernate support wizard exhibits inconsistent behaviour   
2628 DBExplorer: Driver added from the "New connection" dialog is not persisted.
2637 UML: No way to remove assigned stereotypes.  See link for details
2705 Saving UMR file to network mount fails See link for details
2710 Visual Web Designer: Horizontal ruler element is not draggable from the palette  
2712 Autocomplete for XDoclet tags are broken by an update in Eclipse 3.1.1  
2716 If document does not have root element, Web Designer preview does not show entire page  
2736 Web Designer Preview does not honor the "rendered" property of the JSF components  
2744 Connector name 'Oracle 9i/AS' is misleading
2746 JRun4 cannot be run with Java 5 from within MyEclipse  See link for details
2748 HTML/JSP/XML formatter break anchor tags across lines, introduces space into page  See link for details.
2752 UML: State Diagram - Eclipse hanging during editing action properties.   
2753 Removing rows from large table in Web Designer is very slow  See link for details.
2755 HTML Formatter can cause rendering errors with inline elements  
2758 Web Designer reformats code on destructive operations  
2759 After deleting rows in designer and reopening file, single select lists show as multi-select lists  See link for details.
2762 Xdoclet content assist doesn't dynamically reduce proposal list  
2763 [Hibernate] Spring configuration not supported Seelink for details.
2768 [Spring] problems importing MyEclipse Spring project
2788 [UML] toolbar actions are not in MRU order
2793 JSF config wizards missing wizban image when launched in edit mode
2805 Error occurs when renaming MyEclipse projects Seelinks for details.
2813 Sun connector won't launch with spaces in JDK install path Seelink for details.