My Eclipse 5.5 New and Noteworthy Features

What was New and Noteworthy in our previous releases?       5.1.1GA

5.5 Feature Highlights    [Page 1, 2, 3, 4]

The MyEclipse 5.5 release includes enhancements and bug fixes for the MyEclipse environment over the previous 5.1.1 GA release, including noteable feature additions for the below functionalities or platforms. Please see the main page (page 1) for a full list of features.

On this page:
MyEclipse Quick Installer MyEclipse Quick Installer enables you to extend MyEclipse by locating and installing additional features and plugins from the new MyEclipse Community Essentials plugins repositiory.

 

MyEclipse Quick Installer is launched manually from the MyEclipse menubar or it can be configured to automatically detect new compatible features upon MyEclipse startup.


You can enable or disable the Quick Installer's automatic search-on-startup mode from the MyEclipse Community Essentials preference page.


SNAP Introduction - Windows only
 		Included in this release are 5 new special purpose Windows applications known as simple non-integrated developer applications (SNAPs). SNAP applications (known as just SNAPs) are targeted for quick, non-IDE based development tasks. The 4 SNAP applications are: the MyEclipse HTML Designer, MyEclipse Database Explorer, MyEclipse Image Editor, MyEclipse XML Editor and MyEclipse Text Editor. The Milestone-1 SNAPs are provided for the Windows OS platform and are included in the All-in-One installer.



New shortcuts are now available in the Windows Start menu.
 
Windows Desktop Integration
 		The SNAPs are designed to work seamless on the Windows platform. During the installation process Windows is configured to support associations with each SNAP.

Supported File Types
MyEclipse HTML Designer
  • .htm
  • .html
MyEclipse XML Editor
  • .xml
  • .xsd
  • .dtd
MyEclipse Database Explorer
  • .sql
  • .ddl
MyEclipse Image Editor
  • .bmp
  • .gif
  • .ie (MyEclipse Image)
  • .jpg
  • .jpeg
  • .gif
  • .tif
  • .tiff 
MyEclipse Text Editor
  • .txt
  • .properties
  • .java
  • .xml
  • .html
  • .classpath
  • .rtf
  • .log
  • .c
  • .cpp
  • .ini
  • .mak
  • .makefile
  • .php
  • .php3
  • .php4
  • .pl
  • .vbs



An Edit with MyEclipse... shortcut is available in the context menu of all supported file types.




For each supported file type, the appropriate MyEclipse Snap will be included in the Open With menu.





The MyEclipse Snaps are listed in the recommended programs for their supported files types. They are also generally available in the list of Programs available to Windows.





MyEclipse Snaps can be easily set as the double-click default using the Open With > "Always use" option.




All MyEclipse Snaps are configured to launch and use only one instance. Thus when 2 or more files with the same file-type are activated (e.g., dbl-click) they all open in the same application window for editing.




An integrated File View that works with the Windows file system is available in the default UI layout of each MyEclipse Snap.


IDE cross over
 		Because the MyEclipse Snaps can be configured as the default editors for Windows, this enables them to be launched from Eclipse by using the Open With > System Editor menu.


MyEclipse Database Explorer Snap
 		MyEclipse Database Explorer startup screen



Overview of MyEclipse Database Explorer





MyEclipse HTML Designer Snap
 		MyEclipse HTML Designer startup screen


Overview of MyEclipse HTML Designer Snap.




The Preview page has a split screen capability that shows both IE and Mozilla previews.




MyEclipse XML Editor Snap
 		MyEclipse XML Editor startup screen



Overview of MyEclipse XML Editor Snap showing the XML Editing capability.




MyEclipse XML Editor also have graphical XSD Schema editor.




MyEclipse Image Editor Snap
 		MyEclipse Image Editor startup screen


Overview of MyEclipse Image Editor Snap.




The MyEclipse Image Editor also includes the MyEclipse Screen Capture tools that can be invoked from the toolbar.




The Screen Capture Tool can also be invoked from the MyEclipse Menu.


MyEclipse Text Editor Snap
 		MyEclipse Text Editor startup screen


Overview of MyEclipse Text Editor Snap.




Editor color preferences can be set using the Colors preferences page.




Screen Capture Pro (Professional subscription only) The MyEclipse Screen Capture Pro feature has been added to both MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench and the MyEclipse Image Editor Snap.

Below are the toolbar and menu actions for using the Screen Capture Pro







The first time you use Screen Capture Pro or you choose the Settings... action the Screen Capture Pro settings dialog will be presented.




Initiating screen capture brings up capture controls.




After the capture is complete, the resulting image will be automatically opened in the MyEclipse Image Editor.


 
Image Editor enhancements
 The Image Preview has been improved with the ability to real-time sync with the Image Editor.  Now the Image Preview will be updated with your latest changes without having to save.




An arrow tool has been added to the toolbox. It supports customized line width, color and arrowhead sizing.
File View
 		File View is a new view that provides Windows File Explorer style of browsing and visibility of file system resources within a workspace and external to a workspace. The ability to view and create non-workspace folders and files is a key advantage that this view has over the Navigator view. Drag-n-Drop, copy, paste and delete operations are supported by this view.

 


Use the View menu for additional FileView actions.




Context menu actions are available for files and folders.


All-in-one Installer Enhancements The MyEclipse 5.5 GA All-In-One installer has been improved by reducing its download footprint size by over 50%.


Version 5.5GA of All-in-one installer is only 188 MB. This is down from 320 MB!
 


The All-in-One installer now includes the ability to registry file associations that are supported by the MyEclipse Snaps.


 
New Web Projects include start page The New Web Project Wizard now creates a start page, e.g., index.jsp, during the project creation process.


MyEclipse 5.5 New & Noteworthy
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MyEclipse Innovations

The innovation and application of Eclipse technology is Genuitec's sole business. With well over 2 million downloads, MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench (now with Web Services support) has grown to be the most popular and successful Eclipse-based JEE IDE. Our history of blending the best of open source with commercial-grade developed tools has created a long chain of Eclipse technology innovation that includes: