Feature Highlights

The 5.0M1 release includes major enhancements and bug fixes for the MyEclipse environment, including:

• All MyEclipse 4.x features ported to Eclipse 3.2 SDK and Web Tools Platform 1.5.
• Matisse4MyEclipse for Eclipse 3.2 SDK (Windows only). Requires update site installation.
• Linux support for MyEclipse Web 2.0 Browser and JavaScript Debugger.
• New wizards to create and drop database tables, indexes and foreign key relationships. Wizards are accessible from the Database Browser and Database Details View.
• Database Entity-Relationship Diagram customization features including selection of tables during creation, drag-n-drop of tables and from the Database Explorer, remove table from diagram, and access schema management wizards from context-menu actions.
• Improved Database DDL, XML generation, Database Details view (especially table information).
• Hibernate HQL Editor with query execution capabilities integrated with Database Explorer, includes synchronized SQL Translation View.
• Hibernate Perspective and capabilities.
• Use of customizable workspace capabilities, perspectives and activities to provide a cohesive organization of MyEclipse features.

MyEclipse 5.0M1 utilizes Eclipse 3.2RC4/WTP 1.5RC2 as its base, and integrates the many new features now available in Eclipse 3.2. 

New ER Diagram Wizard

The new ER Diagram creation wizard enables you select the tables from your DB schema to include in a new ER diagram.

A similar wizard is also presented if you click Refresh Diagram from the View menu allowing you to manage existing diagrams just as easily.

ERD Drag and Drop Support

Drag tables from your schema and drop them into an existing diagram to add them to the ER diagram. If the tables already exist in the diagram, they will be refreshed.

The dropped table will be displayed at the drop location. All relationships involving the new table are automatically depicted.

Deleteting tables from an ER Diagram

Select tables in your diagram and delete them by pressing the DEL key or using the context menu. Table deletions can be undone and redone as needed.

New Table Wizard

Create a new table by using the New Table action from your schema's context menu.

Use the Add button in the Columns tab to open the New Table Column Wizard.

The New Table Column Wizard allows you to defint the details of a new column for the table.

Drop Table Action

Drop tables using the Drop Table action from the table's context menu in the Database Browser.

New Index Wizard

Create a new index by using the New Index action from your table's context menu.

Drop Index Action

Drop indices using the Drop Index action from the index's context menu in the Table Info view.

Index - Generate DDL Action

Generate DDL for your index using the Generate DDL from the index's context menu in the Table Info view.

New Foreign Key Wizard

Create a new foreign key by using the New Foreign Key action from your table's context menu in the Database Browser.

Drop Foreign Key Action

Drop foreign keys using the Drop Foreign Key action from the foreign key's context menu in the Table Info view.

Foreign Key - Generate DDL Action

Generate DDL for your foreign key using the Generate DDL from the foreign key's context menu in the Table Info view.

Matisse4MyEclipse -- Matisse/Swing UI Designer

Matisse4MyEclipse is an implementation of NetBeans Matisse that integrates its functionality into MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench to enable the rapid development of Java Swing rich client applications (RCP) within the MyEclipse environment.

Note: Matisse4MyEclipse is not shipped as part of the MyEclipse 5.0M1 installer and must be installed as separate download using the Eclipe update manager.

MyEclipse Swing/Matisse  Perspective

The Matisse4MyEclipse feature set includes a new perspective that provides a optimized user-interface organization of Matisse4MyEclipse tools for Swing UI development.  The default layout of the Swing/Matisse perspective is shown in the previous figure. To access the perspective select from the menubar Window>Open Perspective...>MyEclipse Swing/Matisse   or choose the perspective from Workbench toolbar's perspective switcher (see figure below).

New Matisse Form Wizard

To begin Swing/RCP development with Matisse4MyEclipse use the Matisse Form Wizard to create a new form.  This wizard is launched using either the File shortcut menu in the Swing/Matisse perspective or from the menubar select File>New>Other>MyEclipse>Swing>Matisse Form . 

     

The Matisse Form wizard supports creation of many different types of top-level form types. 

The wizard creates 2 files for each form:

1. A <filename>.form file that contains the user interface layout information
2. A <filename>.java file that contains the generated Java source code

Matisse Form Editor

Drag-n-Drop UI Designer Support

Design Preview Support

Generate Action Handler Code

Matisee4MyEclipse/Swing Preference page

Preferences enable you to customize various aspects of Matisse4MyEclipse operation.   

MyEclipse Hibernate Perspective

The new Hibernate perspective provides a customized workbench layout consisting the views and editors frequently used in OR mapping activites such as: browsing of Hibernate projects and database schemas, reverse engineer OR mapping details from database schema OR editing and execute HQL queries.

MyEclipse HQL Editor and HQL Snippet Execution

Open the HQL Editor using the Open HQL Editor... action in the MyEclipse submenu of your Hibernate or Spring-Hibernate project's context menu.
Alternatively, double clicking a file with an hql extension also opens this editor.

Content Assist is availabe in the HQL Editor.  It provides support for the following contexts. 

• HQL Keywords
• Hibernate mapped entities

Content Assist can be invoked by pressing Ctrl + Space or Alt + '/' if you use Emacs keybindings.

As you type, observe the HQL being translated to SQL in the Hibernate Dynamic Query Translator View.

Use the Query Parameters view to supply variable values for your query if necessary.

Execute the HQL using the Execute button on the HQL toolbar

The results of the query are displayed in the Hibernate Query Results view. Click a particular result to see more details in the Properties view.

Use the Project combo to switch the editor context between different Hibernate projects.

If you make changes to your configuration files, mapping files or POJOs, those changes can be picked up by the Hibernate Project model by clicking the Refresh button on the HQL toolbar.

MyEclipse 5.0.0 New Architecture

Advanced Templates for HTML/JSP/XML files

The new HTML/JSP/XML file wizards have been reenginnered to incorporate new advanced templating engine.  Look for more enhancements and user customization features of this new template engine to be available in the next milestone release.

    

Advanced Workbench Capabilities Management

Linux Support for Web2.0/AJAX Feature Set

(New Linux Support) Web2.0 Browser and related views 

For any page opened in the Web2.0 Browser, the DOM Inspector and JavaScript Console views help with your AJAX development.

(New Linux Support) Set breakpoints in  JavaScript files 

The JavaScript Debugger supports breakpoints set in both top-level and included resources. In the following screenshot the breakpoint is set in a JavaScript file that is included in an HTML file.