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Happy to announce 4.15.0.AM1 (Developer Milestone 1) build for Eclipse 2020-03.

Downloads available at JBoss Tools 4.15.0 AM1.

What is New?

Full info is at this page. Some highlights are below.

Please note that a regression has been found in the Fuse Tools. This is going to be fixed for the release (4.15.0.Final). Please find more information in this ticket.

Quarkus Tools

Language support for Kubernetes, Openshift, S2i and Docker properties

There is now completion, hover, documentation and validation for kubernetes., openshift., s2i., docker. properties

Enter kubernetes prefix:

Enter openshift prefix:

Enter s2i prefix:

Language support for MicroProfile REST Client properties

Likewise, there is now completion, hover, documentation and validation for the MicroProfile properties from REST Client.

After registering a REST client using @RegisterRestClient like so:

package org.acme;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RegisterRestClient;

@RegisterRestClient
public interface MyServiceClient {
	@GET
    @Path("/greet")
    Response greet();
}

The related MicroProfile Rest config properties will have language feature support (completion, hover, validation, etc.).

Change the Java code so that the configuration key is changed:

package org.acme;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RegisterRestClient;

@RegisterRestClient(configKey = "myclient")
public interface MyServiceClient {
	@GET
    @Path("/greet")
    Response greet();
}

and notice the code assist is changed accordingly:

Language support for MicroProfile Health

Likewise, there is now completion, hover, documentation and validation for the MicroProfile Health artifacts.

So if you have the following Health class:

package org.acme;

import org.eclipse.microprofile.health.Health;

@Health
public class MyHealth {

}

you will get a validation error (as the class does not implement the HealthCheck interface:

Similarly, if you have a class that implements HealthCheck but is not annotated with Health, some workflow applies:

package org.acme;

import org.eclipse.microprofile.health.HealthCheck;
import org.eclipse.microprofile.health.HealthCheckResponse;

public class MyHealth implements HealthCheck {

	@Override
	public HealthCheckResponse call() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return null;
	}

}

you will get a validation error (as the class is not annotated with Health interface:

As there are several ways to fix the problem, then several quick fixes are proposed.

Server Tools

Wildfly 19 Server Adapter

A server adapter has been added to work with Wildfly 19. It adds support for Java EE 8, Jakarta EE 8 and Microprofile 3.3.

Please note that while creating a Wildfly 19 server adapter, you may get a warning. This is going to be fixed for the release.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-27092

EAP 7.3 Server Adapter

The server adapter has been adapted to work with EAP 7.3.

Enjoy!

Jeff Maury

JBoss Tools 4.14.0 and Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12.14 for Eclipse 2019-12 are here waiting for you. Check it out!

Installation

Red Hat CodeReady Studio comes with everything pre-bundled in its installer. Simply download it from our Red Hat CodeReady product page and run it like this:

java -jar codereadystudio-<installername>.jar

JBoss Tools or Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE) CodeReady Studio require a bit more:

This release requires at least Eclipse 4.14 (2019-12) but we recommend using the latest Eclipse 4.14 2019-12 JEE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you can either find us on the Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools" or "Red Hat CodeReady Studio".

For JBoss Tools, you can also use our update site directly.

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/photon/stable/updates/

What is new?

Our main focus for this release was a new tooling for the Quarkus framework, improvements for container based development and bug fixing. Eclipse 2019-12 itself has a lot of new cool stuff but let me highlight just a few updates in both Eclipse 2019-12 and JBoss Tools plugins that I think are worth mentioning.

OpenShift

OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 support

With the new OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.3 now available (see this article), JBoss Tools is compatible with this major release in a transparent way. Just define your connection to your OCP 4.3 based cluster as you did before for an OCP 3 cluster, and use the tooling !

New OpenShift Application Explorer view

A new OpenShift Application Explorer window has been added in addition to the OpenShift Explorer. It is based on OpenShift Do. It provides a different and simplified user experience allowing easy and rapid feedback through inner loop and debugging.

Let’s see it in action.

Opening the OpenShift Application Explorer view

If you opened a brand new workspace, you should see the OpenShift Application Explorer view in the list of views available on the botton part of the screen:

If you don’t see the view being listed, you can open it through the Window -→ Show View -→ Other menu, enter open in the filter text box and then select OpenShift Application Explorer:

Expanding the root node will display the list of projects available on the cluster:

Java based micro service

We will show how to deploy a Java based microservice and how to use the various features. But we first need to load the component source code in our workspace. Thanks to the launcher wizard, we can do that easilly. Try Ctrl+N and select the Launcher project wizard:

Then click the Next button:

Select rest-http in the Mission field, vert.x community in the Runtime field, myservice in the Project name field:

Then click the Finish button: a new project will be added to your workspace. Once the dependencies resolution has been completed, we’re ready to start playing with the cluster.

Create the component

Now that we have the source code, we can create the component. From the OpenShift Application Explorer view, right select the project (myproject), and the click the New → Component menu:

Enter myservice in the Name field, click the Browse button to select the project we have just created, select java in the Component type field, select 8 in the Component version field, enter myapp in the Application field and uncheck the Push after create check-box:

Then click the Finish button. The component will be created and expanding the project node will now show the application that contains our component:

Expanding the application will now display our component:

The component has been created but it is not yet deployed on the cluster (as we unchecked the Push after create check-box. In order to deploy it,right select the component and click the Push menu. The deployment will be created and then a build will be launched. A new window will be created in the Console view. After a while, you should see the following output:

The component is now deployed to the cluster but we cannot access it as we need to define an URL to access it externally. Right select the component and click the New → URL menu:

Enter url1 in the Name field and select 8080 in the Port field:

Then click on the Finish button. The URL is created but not on the cluster, so we need to push again the component so that the local configuration is synchronized with the configuration on the cluster. The Console window will display a message claiming that a push is now required:

So push the component again (component → Push).

Let’s check that we can now access the service. Expand the component level so that we can see the URL we have just created:

Right select the URL and click the Open in Browser menu, you should see the new browser window:

You can test the service: enter demo in the text box and click the Invoke button:

Feedback loop

We will now see how we can get fast feedback on code changes. So let’s modify the application code and see how we can synchronize the changes to the cluster.

In the Project Explorer view, locate the HttpApplication.java file:

Double click on the file to open the editor:

On line 14, change the line:

  protected static final String template = "Hello, %s!";

  protected static final String template = "Hello, %s!, we modified the code";

and press the Ctrl+S key in order to save the file.

For the OpenShift Application Explorer, right click the component (myservice) and click the Push menu to send the changes to the cluster: the component will be built again on the cluster with the next changes and after a few seconds, it will be available again:

Select the browser window again, enter demo1 in the textbox (we need to change the value we used before in order to make sure cache is not involved) and click the Invoke button again:

We’ve seen that, through a sequence of code modification(s) followed by a synchronize action (push) to the cluster, we can get a very fast feedback. If you don’t want to manually synchronize the the cluster (push), you can opt to automatically synchronize to the cluster with the Watch action: each time a code modification is done locally on your workstation, a new build will be automatically launched on the cluster.

Going further: debug your application on the cluster

Testing an application through code changes is a great achievement so far but it may be difficult for complex applications where we need to understand how the code behaves without the need to use the UI. That’s why the next step is to be able to debug our application live on the cluster.

The new OpenShift Application Explorer allow such a scenario. We will first set up a breakpoint in our application code. Select again the HttpApplication.java file and scroll down to the greeting method:

On line 41, double click in the left ruler column so that a breakpoint is set:

We are now ready to debug our application. In order to do that, we need to launch a local (Java in our case) debugger that will be connected to our application on the cluster. This is what the Debug action is doing: right select the component (myservice) and click the Debug menu: you will see that port forwarding has been started so that our local (Java) debugger can connect to the remote Java virtual machine:

and then a local (Java) debugger is launched and connected to that port. Let’s check now that we can debug our application:

Select the browser window again, enter demo2 in the textbox (we need to change the value we used before in order to make sure cache is not involved) and click the Invoke button again: as our breakpoint is hit, you will be asked if you want to switch to the Debug perspective (this may not be displayed if you previously selected the Remember my decision checkbox:

Click the Switch button and you will see the Debug perspective:

You are now debugging a Java component running on a remote cluster just like it was running locally on your workstation. Please note that we demoed this feature using a Java based component but we also support the same feature to NodeJS based components.

Quarkus

Starting with this release, we’ve added a new Quarkus tooling for applications built on top of the Supersonic Subatomic Java Quarkus framework.

Quarkus project creation wizard

A new wizard has been added to create a new Quarkus application project in your workspace. In order to launch it, first enter Ctrl+N to get the list of available wizards

In the filter text box, enter the qu characters to filter the list of wizards:

Select the Quarkus Project wizard and click the Next button:

The Project type combo allows you to choose between Maven or Gradle tool used to manage your project. We’ll go with Maven for this tutorial.

Enter a project name (we will use code-with-quarkus) and click the Next button:

This dialog allows you to choose various parameters for you project, like the project coordinates (group id, artifact id and version) along with the base REST endpoint information. We’ll use the default so click on the Next button:

This dialog allows to select which Quarkus extensions you want to add to your project. The extensions are grouped by categories, so first select a specific category in the left table. We will choose the Web one:

You should have noticed that the middle table has been updated. In order to add an extension, double click on the extension in the middle table. We will add RESTEasy JAX-RS and RESTEasy Qute (a templating engine):

You should have noticed that the extensions that you double clicked on are now being added to the right table. If you want to remove an extension from the list of selected ones, double click again either in the center table or in the right table.

We are now all set so click on the Finish button to launch the project creation. The project creation job is then launched, dependencies are being retrieved and after a while, the new project will appear in the Project Explorer window:

We have successfully created our first Quarkus project. Let’s see now how we can launch this application and debug it.

Running the Quarkus application

Running a Quarkus application can be done from the workbench Run configurations. Select the Run → Run Configurations… menu to display the dialog allowing to create a Run configuration.

Scroll down until the Quarkus Application is visible and select it:

Click on the New configuration button (top left):

A workspace project needs to be associated with the configuration so click on the Browse button to see the project selection dialog:

As the workspace contains a single project, it is automatically selected and we can click on the OK button:

The configuration is now ready to be used. So let’s start our Quarkus application by clicking on the Run button:

You should see a new Console being displayed.

The application is being built and after a while, it will be started:

Debugging the Quarkus application

Debugging a Quarkus application is just a simple as launching the previous configuration we’ve just created in Debug. You just need to open the Run → Debug Configurations…. menu and click on the Debug button.

It will start the Quarkus application like in the previous paragraph but also connect a remote JVM debug configuration to your running Quarkus application. So if you have set breakpoints in your application source files, the execution will automatically stops there.

application.properties content assist

Every Quarkus application is configured through a configuration called application.properties.

The content of this configuration file is dependent of the set of Quarkus extensions that your application is using. Some settings are mandatory, some others are not and the possible values are specific to the nature of the setting: boolean, integer, limited set of values (enumerations).

So, as a developer, you need to look at various guides and documentations (the core Quarkus and the extension specific ones)

So Quarkus Tools provides content assist on those specific files that:

validates the content of the application.properties files
provides you with the possible setting names and values

Let’s see it in action.

Go to src/main/resources/application.properties in the project and right click and select Open With → Generic Text Editor:

Go the third line of the file and invoke code completion (Ctrl + Space):

For each setting, a documentation is displayed when you mouse over the setting. Let try to add quarkus.http.port to the file and mouse over this name:

If we enter a wrong value (false instead of a numeric value), then the error will be highlighted:

This is the first set of features that will be integration into the next version of JBoss Tools. We encourage you to used it and if you are missing features and/or enhancements, don’t hesitate to report them here: JBoss Tools issue tracker

Hibernate Tools

Hibernate Runtime Provider Updates

A number of additions and updates have been performed on the available Hibernate runtime providers.

Runtime Provider Updates

The Hibernate 5.4 runtime provider now incorporates Hibernate Core version 5.4.12.Final and Hibernate Tools version 5.4.12.Final.

The Hibernate 5.3 runtime provider now incorporates Hibernate Core version 5.3.15.Final and Hibernate Tools version 5.3.15.Final.

Deprecation

The Forge, Java Server Tools (JST) and Visual Page Editor (VPE) have been deprecated. Even though they received an update with this release, we have no plan to maintain or add new features and they may be removed in the future.

In addition, the adapters for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Server 4.3 and 5.0 have also been deprecated.

Platform

The view menu chevron icon (▽) is replaced by a modern equivalent, the vertical ellipsis ( ⠇).

Almost every view has a menu that may contain additional configuration settings like filters, layout settings, and so on. The view menu was often overlooked and we expect that this change will help users to find it.

Find Actions: The improved Quick Access

The formerly called Quick Access action has been retitled to Find Actions to better emphasize its goal.

The related UI has changed a bit to improve its usage and accessibility:

The widget item is now a regular toolbar item (button-like)
An icon is shown
Right-clicking on the tool item works and shows typical actions, including Hide
The proposals are now a regular dialog, centered on the workbench

These changes will greatly improve the experience if you’re using a screen reader as it relies on a more standardized focus state. This also leverages all the default and usual accessibility features of dialogs (moveable, resizable…).

Loading the proposals has been improved as well to avoid UI freezes when loading proposals.

Find Actions finds text in file contents

Find Actions is now extended by the Quick Text Search feature to show the potential text matches in file contents also in the proposals.

If the Quick Text Search bundle wasn’t started yet, you may miss those matches. In this case, you can use Find Actions itself to activate the Quick Text Search by finding and selecting the Activate bundle for 'File content' proposals entry.

Find Actions lists workspace files

Find Actions can now list matching file names from the workspace (similar to the Open Resource dialog). Upon selection the file is opened in the editor.

Inline rename for simple resources while in Project Explorer.

In the Project Explorer, renaming (with the F2 shortcut or Rename context menu) will start an inline rename for normal resources when other files aren’t affected by the rename.

In cases where other files are affected by the rename, or the rename operation is customized, the rename dialog will appear as it previously did.

Text Editors

Show problem markers inline

You can now see the errors, warnings, and info markers inline in most of the text editors. No more mousing around to see the actual error message!

You can see the available quick fixes by clicking on the message.

You can enable it on the General > Editors > Text Editors preference page and set Show Code Minings for Annotations to:

None (default)
Errors only
Errors and Warnings
Errors, Warnings and Info

Backspace/delete can treat spaces as tabs

If you use the Insert spaces for tabs option, now you can also change the backspace and delete keys behavior to remove multiple spaces at once, as if they were a tab.

The new setting is called Remove multiple spaces on backspace/delete and is found on the General > Editors > Text Editors preference page.

Debug

Collapse All Button in the Debug View

In the Debug View, now you can now use the new Collapse All button to collapse all the launches.

Before collapsing:

After collapsing:

Control character interpretation in Console View

The Console View can now interpret the control characters backslash (\b) and carriage return (\r).

This feature is disabled by default. You can enable it on the Run/Debug > Console preference page.

Themes and Styling

Improvements in UI Forms Styling

CSS customization of ExpandableComposite and Section was reworked to give you more control over their styling. In dark mode, those elements now integrate better with other Form elements.

Old:

New:

The special styling of the Perspective switcher has been removed to make the Toolbar look consistent. This also reduces OS specific styling issues with the perspective switcher.

Old:

New:

Usage of consistent colors for the dark theme

The usage of different shades of gray in the dark theme was reduced.

The styling of the widgets is also not based on the selected view anymore, which makes the UI more consistent.

General Updates

Ant 1.10.7

Eclipse has adopted Ant version 1.10.7.

Support for the Ant include task added

The Ant include task (available in the Ant library since 1.8.0) is now fully recognized by the ant-ui-plugin and validated accordingly.

Java Developement Tools (JDT)

Java 13 Support

Java 13

Java™ 13 is available and Eclipse JDT supports Java 13 for the Eclipse 4.14 release.

The release notably includes the following Java 13 features:

JEP 354: Switch Expressions (Preview).
JEP 355: Text Blocks (Preview).

Please note that these are preview language feature and hence enable preview option should be on. For an informal introduction of the support, please refer to Java 13 Examples wiki.

Keyboard shortcut for Text Block creation

A keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + ' is added in the Java Editor for text blocks, which is a preview feature added in Java 13.

Conditions under which this keyboard shortcut works are:

The Java Project should have a compliance of 13 or above and the preview features should be enabled.
The selection in the editor should not be part of a string or a comment or a text block.

Examples:

Pressing the shortcut gives:

You can also encompass a selected text in text block as below:

On pressing the shortcut, you get this:

Java Editor

Remove unnecessary array creation

A new cleanup action Remove unnecessary array creation has been added. It will remove explicit array creation for varargs parameters.

For the given code:

After cleanup, you get this:

Push negation down in expression

A new Java cleanup/save action Push down negation has been added. It reduces the double negation by reverting the arithmetic expressions.

For instance:

!!isValid; becomes isValid;

!(a != b); becomes (a == b);

Provide templates for empty Java source files

When dealing with empty Java source files, some basic templates (class, interface, enum) will now be available from the content assist popup.

Postfix completion proposal category

Postfix completion allows certain kinds of language constructs to be applied to the previously entered text.

For example: Entering "input text".var and selecting the var - Creates a new variable proposal, will result in String name = "input text".

try-with-resources quickfix

A quickfix has been added to create a try-with-resources statement based on the selected lines. Lines that are selected must start with declarations of objects that implement AutoCloseable. These declarations are added as the resources of the try-with-resources statement.

If there are selected statements that are not eligible resources (such as Objects that don’t implement AutoCloseable), then the first such statement and all the following selected statements will be placed in the try-with-resources body.

Method before applying try-with-resources:

Select all the lines inside the method, then use the short-cut Ctrl+1 and click on Surround with try-with-resources from the list:

This results in:

Javadoc tag checking for modules

Support has been added to check the Javadoc of a module-info.java file to report missing and duplicate @uses and @provides tags depending on the compiler settings (Preferences > Java > Compiler > Javadoc).

Java Formatter

Formatting of text blocks

The code formatter can now handle text blocks, which is a preview feature added in Java 13. It’s controlled by the Text block indentation setting, found right in the Indentation section of the Profile Editor (Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter > Edit…).

By default, text block lines are indented the same way as wrapped code lines, that is with two extra tabs relative to the starting indentation (or whatever is set as Default indentation for wrapped lines in the Line Wrapping section). You can also set it to use only one tab for indentation (Indent by one), align all lines to the position of the opening quotes (Indent on column), or preserve the original formatting (Do not touch).

Blank lines between Javadoc tags

The code formatter can now divide Javadoc tags into groups (by type, for example @param, @throws, @returns) and separate these groups with blank lines. This feature can be turned on in the Comments > Javadocs section by checking the Blank lines between tags of different type box.

Space after not operator

A new setting has been added to control whether a space should be added after not (!) operator, independently from other unary operators. To find it, expand sections Whitespace > Expressions > Unary operators and go to the last checkbox.

JUnit

BREE update for org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime

The Bundle Required Execution Environment (BREE) for the org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime bundle is now J2SE-1.5.

Debug

No suspending on exception recurrence

A new workspace preference has been added for exception breakpoints: Suspend policy for recurring exception instances controls whether the same exception instance may cause the debugger to suspend more than once.

This option is relevant when debugging an application that has try blocks at several levels of the architecture. In this situation an exception breakpoint may fire multiple times for the same actual exception instance: A throw statement inside a catch block may re-throw the same exception. The same holds for each finally block or try-with-resources block.

When the debugger stops due to an exception breakpoint, you may want to continue your debug session by pressing Resume (F8), but all that catching and re-throwing will force you to observe all locations where the same exception will surface again and again. Suspending at all try blocks on the call stack may also spoil your context of open Java editors, by opening more editors of classes that are likely irrelevant for the debugging task at hand.

The JDT Debugger will now detect this situation, and the first time it notices the same exception instance recurring at the surface, a new question dialog is shown:

If you select Skip in this dialog, the current exception instance will be dismissed for good. Still, new instances of the same exception type will cause suspending when they are thrown.

If you check Remember my decision your choice will be stored in the mentioned workspace preference to be effective for all exception breakpoints.

Even after choosing Skip — resp. Only once in the preferences — you can have the old behavior simply by pressing Step Return (F7) instead of Resume.

JDT Developers

Flag whether content assist extension needs to run in UI thread

The existing org.eclipse.jdt.ui.javaCompletionProposalComputer, org.eclipse.jdt.ui.javadocCompletionProposalComputer and org.eclipse.jdt.ui.javaCompletionProposalSorters extension points now allow a new attribute requiresUIThread that allows a developer to declare whether running in the UI thread is required or not.

This information will be used by the Content Assist operation to allow some optimizations and prevent UI freezes by reducing the amount of work happening in the UI thread.

To preserve backward compatibility, the default value for this attribute (if unset) is true, meaning the extension is expected to run in the UI thread.

And more…

You can find more noteworthy updates in on this page.

What is next?

Having JBoss Tools 4.14.0 and Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12.14 out we are already working on the next release for Eclipse 2020-03.

Enjoy!

Jeff Maury

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Latest posts

What is New?

Quarkus Tools

Language support for Kubernetes, Openshift, S2i and Docker properties

Language support for MicroProfile REST Client properties

Language support for MicroProfile Health

Server Tools

Wildfly 19 Server Adapter

EAP 7.3 Server Adapter

Installation

What is new?

OpenShift

OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 support

New OpenShift Application Explorer view

Opening the OpenShift Application Explorer view

Java based micro service

Create the component

Feedback loop

Going further: debug your application on the cluster

Quarkus

Quarkus project creation wizard

Running the Quarkus application

Debugging the Quarkus application

application.properties content assist

Hibernate Tools

Hibernate Runtime Provider Updates

Runtime Provider Updates

Deprecation

Platform

Views, Dialogs and Toolbar

New view menu icon

Find Actions: The improved Quick Access

Find Actions finds text in file contents

Find Actions lists workspace files

Inline rename for simple resources while in Project Explorer.

Text Editors

Show problem markers inline

Backspace/delete can treat spaces as tabs

Debug

Collapse All Button in the Debug View

Control character interpretation in Console View

Themes and Styling

Improvements in UI Forms Styling

Perspective switcher gets aligned with normal toolbar styling

Usage of consistent colors for the dark theme

General Updates

Ant 1.10.7

Support for the Ant include task added

Java Developement Tools (JDT)

Java 13 Support

Java 13

Keyboard shortcut for Text Block creation

Java Editor

Remove unnecessary array creation

Push negation down in expression

Provide templates for empty Java source files

Postfix completion proposal category

try-with-resources quickfix

Javadoc tag checking for modules

Java Formatter

Formatting of text blocks

Blank lines between Javadoc tags

Space after not operator

JUnit

BREE update for org.eclipse.jdt.junit.runtime

Debug

No suspending on exception recurrence

JDT Developers

Flag whether content assist extension needs to run in UI thread

And more…​

What is next?

And more…