Release 4.1.1 ; New MyEclipse Desktop actions, Web 2.0 Browser, Hibernate Forward Engineering Wizard, Hibernate Reverse Engineering Customization
   
  MyEclipse 5.0M2 New and Noteworthy (Most recent Development Release)
New & Noteworthy For 5.0 (since M2 only)


New & Noteworthy Since the last GA Release (including all milestone releases):

Page 1 - Eclipse 3.2/Callisto compatability, Matisse4MyEclipse
Page 2 - Web Services support / Visual Web Designer
Page 3 - Database support enhancements, Hibernate/Spring support
Page 4 - AJAX/Web 2.0 Tools, App Server Connectors, New MyEclipse Branding


Feature Highlights

MyEclipse 5.0 GA release includes the following major enhancements and bug fixes since the 4.1.1 release:  

  • Full compatibility with Eclipse 3.2 and Callisto projects
  • Matisse4MyEclipse integration into MyEclipse; Now includes customizable palettes
  • Web Service support, including:
    • Project and project creation wizard
    • Customizable library containers
    • New Web Services Wizard
    • Deploy web-service web-app
    • Services .xml file editor
    • Java editor with JSR-181 annotation support and code-assist
    • WSDL editor
    • Web Services Explorer
    • Java hot-swap debug support & MyEclipse hot-sync support for web services application
    • Quick-start documentation and example projects
    • Add Web Services capabilities to existing Web and Java projects
  • Cross-platform Visual HTML Editor including Struts and JSF
  • Expanded database support for MS SQL Server and Sybase
    • View triggers, functions, and procedures in DB Explorer
    • Generate and edit the DDL for triggers and procedures
    • Function Runner - runs functions by generating UI - executes procedure
    • Supports access to the 'sp_help' facility for any selected object to get additional DB information
  • Enhanced Hibernate 3.1.X and Spring 1.2.X support
  • AJAX/Web 2.0 tool extensions
    • Instant-on JavaScript Debugging, extending the integrated MyEclipse local JavaScript debugger to allow the user to debug remote JavaScript applications
    • Full Linux and Mac support
  • Full I18N support for internationalization and localized support following 5.0
  • New Websphere 6.1, Sun Java Application Server System 9.0, and Glassfish 1.0 application server connectors
  • Customizable server launch configurations
  • New Branding
   

MyEclipse-Callisto Integration
MyEclipse 5.0 is built on top of the Eclipse 3.2 SDK and the Callisto platform projects. Callisto is a coordinated release of 10 Eclipse projects. By building upon Callisto, MyEclipse 5.0 now provides convenient update access to new tools and frameworks such as: C++ tools, the BIRT reporting framework and the Visual Editor framework.

One of the key benefits of adopting MyEclipse is that it was the first product to integrate the Web Tool Platform (WTP) almost 2 years ago. Since then MyEclipse has introduced hundreds of bug fixes and enhancements to the initial WTP platform. Over time WTP has undergone a major rearchitecture and revision that is not backward compatible with the version MyEclipse adopted. 

Many of the MyEclipse WTP revisions and enhancements are now becoming available in the WTP 1.5. release. Therefore MyEclipse 5.0 has merged back onto the WTP 1.5+ branch and will maintain compatibility with it in all future releases.




MyEclipse Updates
The Eclipse Update Facility is preconfigured to recognize MyEclipse updates, Eclipse project updates and Callisto platform plugins.



Matisse4MyEclipse has support for customizing design palette

The Matisse Palette can now be extended to include your own custom forms and widgets.  Once you have created a form, you can add it to the palette through a palette manager and then these custom forms will be available during design of any new form.




Customize Matisse Palette from action in view menu

The Matisse Palette can now be customized by launching the Palette manager form the view pulldown action menu. 


The Manage palette dialog has 2 ways to extend it, by adding a new Form or Widget.

Custom forms or widgets will now display in the Matisse Palette under the Custom category.


Matisse4MyEclipse now includes Linux Support

Matisse4MyEclipse is now available on all Linux platforms.  Below is a screenshot of it running on Redhat 4 Enterprise.



Page 1 - Eclipse 3.2/Callisto compatability, Matisse4MyEclipse
Page 2 - Web Services support / Visual Web Designer
Page 3 - Database support enhancements, Hibernate/Spring support
Page 4 - AJAX/Web 2.0 Tools, App Server Connectors, New MyEclipse Branding