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JBoss Tools Integration Stack 4.1.7.Final / JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack 7.1.0.GA

The Integration Stack for JBoss Tools Developer Studio is a set of plugins for Eclipse that provides integration tooling for the following frameworks.

All of these components have been verified to work with the same dependencies as JBoss Tools 4.1 and Developer Studio 7.

Updates have been made to the Business Process tooling (BPMN2 Modeler, BPEL), Fuse Tooling and Data Virtualization tooling (Teiid Designer). See the JBDSIS 7.1.0 Release Notes

JBoss Tools has shipped a JMX Navigator for several years. Changes in the past year have brought with it an enhancement to the JMX Navigator in our most recent release. An extension to the JMX Navigator can now also auto-detect locally running processes, and allow a user to browse their JMX tree.

Not only can we can automatically detect all running java processes, we can also see which ones have been run with the proper debug flags such that a remote debugger can connect to it.

WildFly has the ability to be launched with the --debug flag. This will expose the port 8787 for a debugger to connect to. But if you didn’t know the port, and your startup was taking longer than you’d like, or it was scrolling too fast for your liking, and your google is broken, you could simply right-click the new process in the JMX Navigator and select Connect Debugger. This is an incremental improvement over our past work, because it’s been trimmed down from a right-click action on a project, followed by a dialog, to just the right-click action on the process directly.

Alright, I’ll show you.

Yes, you can. But not all developers will want the debugger connected at all times. They may have custom startup scripts, or personal preferences such that they prefer to always launch via command line, but still wish for convenient access to the debugger. When a server is launched in debug mode from inside eclipse, you cannot disconnect the debugger without also stopping the server. This enhancement allows you to keep the two actions separate, which, we hope, makes our tools more useful for a wider range of individuals.

While small enhancements like this might seem small or incremental, they add up to lots of changes that make your development experience faster, smoother, and more flexible for a wider range of developers and all their divergent personal preferences. We hope you like it.

Rob Stryker

All of these components have been verified to work with the same dependencies as JBoss Tools 4.2 and Developer Studio 8.

To install the Integration Stack tools, first install JBoss Developer Studio from the all-in-one installer, bundled and configured out of the box with everything you need to get started. Alternatively, if you already have eclipse-jee-luna installed, you can install JBoss Developer Studio or JBoss Tools from the Eclipse Marketplace via Help > Eclipse Marketplace…​

Once Developer Studio is installed, restart Eclipse and select the Software/Update tab in the JBoss Central view. The current 8.0.0.GA integration stack is available automatically with the released JBoss Data Virtualization Development tooling. The remainder of the integration tooling is available as Early Access so you must check the Enable Early Access checkbox in the installer window in order to install.

Select the items you’d like to install:

The standard p2 installer is available for JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack. Simply start jbdevstudio or eclipse-with-jbds, then:

The community JBoss Tools Integration Stack installation is easy as well. If you already have eclipse-jee-luna installed, install JBoss Tools from the Eclipse Marketplace via Help > Eclipse Marketplace…​

Once JBoss Tools is installed, restart Eclipse and select the Software/Update tab in the JBoss Central view. The current 4.2.0.Final integration stack is available automatically with the released 'JBoss Data Virtualization Development' tooling. In a manner similar to devstudio, the remainder of the integration tooling is available as "Early Access" so you must check the "Enable Early Access" checkbox in the installer window in order to install.

Select the items you’d like to install:

The standard p2 installer is available for JBoss Tools Integration Stack. Simply start eclipse-with-jbt, then:

Note: If you installed into your own Eclipse you should bump up the launch resource parameters:

The JBoss Data Virtualization tooling (ModeShape, Teiid Designer) is released. New features and bug fixes in the early access tooling are available as well.

Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio comes with everything pre-bundled in its installer. Simply download it and install it like this:

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

This release requires at least Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) but we recommend using the Eclipse Luna SR2 Java EE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled with Java EE Bundle and SR2 release includes some critical fixes.

Once you have installed or if you have JBoss Tools 4.2.x already installed, you can use our update site directly for JBoss Tools:

And for JBoss Developer Studio Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse:

Note: JBoss Tools 4.2.3 and JBoss Developer Studio 8.1.0 will become available in Marketplace only for Final releases at early April

This release is update for Eclipse Luna and also includes some new features which we would like to highlight. You can see everything in the What’s New section for this release.

This version of JBoss Tools targets Eclipse Luna SR2. More stability. Less false positive JavaScript errors. And many other fixed bugs.

If you are a FeedHenry user we’ve now added support for easy importing and running of your FeedHenry Cordova applications.

WildFly 8.2.0.GA archetypes are now available for the HTML5, JavaEE Web & EAR project wizards. They will be automatically enabled when you select a WildFly runtime in the project wizards.

HTML validation in Eclipse Web Tools Luna has an annoying issue with custom HTML5 tags. It warns about any HTML tag name that is not mentioned in the HTML specification. We contributed a patch to Eclipse Mars which allows to disable those warnings for any particular tag name (or a tag name mask, e.g. <ion-*>). Though this was fixed in Eclipse Mars only we back ported this useful feature to JBoss Tools 4.2.3 which is based on Eclipse Luna SR2:

JavaSript file validation now respects ECMA5 keywords.

Tern.java and AngularJS Eclipse (available via JBoss Central - Early Access) has been upgraded to the latest 0.8.2 version.

There is a bunch of new features which were introduced in 0.8.0 releases:

0.8.2 releases also include bug fixes for some critical issues which caused Eclipse to freeze.

On Linux Visual Page Editor can be opened in HTML5 mode for HTML files, where all HTML5 features are supported. Visual Page editor mode can be changed with dialog, which appears during HTML file opening or in Visual Page Editor Preferences.

For JBoss 7 and Wildfly installations, using hostnames with an IPv6 format often failed to connect, show webpages, or even verify the server’s state. Several changes have made this work as expected. With updated wildfly jars, management commands will execute without issue. In addition, our tools will now automatically recognize host names in an IPv6 pattern, and update your launch configuration’s various launch arguments to ensure that the server starts properly and with all expected flags set.

We are going to release a candidate release for JBoss Tools 4.2.3 and JBoss Developer Studio 8.1.0 soon, and we are also working on the next Alpha release for Eclipse Mars.

Enjoy!

Alexey Kazakov

Since the default jboss/wildfly Docker configuration doesn’t expose the management port by default, we’ll need to customize it, and this means writing your very first Dockerfile. Our goals here are to add a management user to the Dockerfile, and also to expose the management ports when running the container.

First, you’ll want to make a folder on your filesystem that you can play around in. I’ll name mine docker_jbds_wf_mgmt - Inside this folder, we’ll make a new file named Dockerfile and give it the following content:

You can see that we’re extending the original jboss/wildfly container. In the above RUN command, we’re also adding a management user. Feel free to customize the password as you wish.

Finally, we’re making sure that when the Docker container runs standalone.sh, it is also making sure to bind the management port to all possible hosts, helping to expose it for use.

When creating the server remember to set the host to be dockerhost ( at least on OSX and Windows ) as shown above.

Since we’ve configured the server to be remote, and for communication with the server to be handled over the management port, we mark it as Remote and controlled by Management Operations in the second page of the New Server wizard. We also don’t require a runtime here, though we may need one later when creating a functional web project with classes. For now, we won’t create one. You’ll also note that we have marked that the Server lifecycle is externally managed, which means we won’t be starting or stopping the server via JBoss Tools, since you’ll be controlling that via Docker on your own.

On the next page, you’ll note that our remote runtime details are optional. Since the server is configured only for management operations, we have no real need to know where the filesystem is located or how to access it. We can safely ignore this page and just proceed through it.

Now, your server is created, but we still need to set the management credentials. First, double-click your Server in the Servers View to open the Server Editor. Then, set your credentials as you did in your Dockerfile as shown below. You’ll note that some default values are already there, and so you’ll need to delete them and set your own values.

In this example, we can create a very simple web project by browsing to File → New → Dynamic Web Project, Once the web project is created, we can create a simple index.html in the WebContent folder.

In this second example, we’ve seen how to install and configure a Wildfly Docker image customized for management operations in JBoss Tools.

To summarize, here are the steps needed:

As you hopefully noted, this kind of setup is much more straightforward (no messing with paths); unfortunately it does have a downside since all publishes are full publishes over the management API. Because of this, incremental updates will not work in this case.

In a future example, I hope that we’ll see how to create an image customized for SSH access, which will allow starting and stopping the server and support incremental updates.

Rob Stryker

Docker’s installation method differs based on your platform. You’ll want to review Docker’s Installation guides for your respective platforms.

To make things unified across the various platform, we recommend you go and map dockerhost to the ip of where your docker instance is running.

By default on Linux that will be 127.0.0.1, so you would add the following line to your /etc/hosts file:

But on OSX and Windows it will be a unique IP you can get by running boot2docker ip (i.e. 192.168.59.122). In that case the following should be added:

From now on you can use dockerhost in all your applications and get to it no matter what OS you are running on.

Wildfly has published their docker images for public consumption. You can browse them at the docker registry, or go to http://www.jboss.org/docker/ for more information.

These images are JBoss' standard Docker images and they do not expose more features than just the bare minimum for production and reuse. This first blog will show how to use them as-is, but going forward we will show how to configure them to be a bit more useful for development use cases.

To make sure your docker installation has worked, and that Wildfly can start without any errors, you can do the following:

This command will run the Docker image for jboss/wildfly in its default state, no customizations and map port 8080 on your dockerhost to 8080 of the running jboss/wildfly container.

Once this is run, the command will not only start up your container, but also launch the server in standalone mode, and connect a terminal to it so you can see the output.

You should also now be able to see WildFly default startup page on http://dockerhost:8080.

Assuming you see the console output, and the server runs with no errors and you can access the welcome browser via dockerhost then you’re set up and ready for the next step.

To terminate the container, you can simply press Ctrl+C. If, for some reason, your image has frozen, and Ctrl+C isn’t working, you can also run the following commands to kill it forcefully.

First list running containers:

Here I only have one container running; you might have more. But to kill any container, you execute docker kill f70149043400, replacing the given hash with your value from CONTAINER ID column.

Since the Docker image in this example does not have SSH enabled, and the Wildfly server is not exposing the Management port, we will need to configure JBoss Tools to use custom filesystem deployments. The way to do this is to map in a local folder from our host into our container.

And since we start Wildfly via the Docker image, on the command-line. we’ll want to configure our Server Adapter in JBoss Tools to be an externally managed server, so it will not manage the start nor stop of the server.

The default docker image is restricted by default. This means it does not have the Management port exposed, nor JMX nor file system access via SSH.

All this means that currently you have to go through some setup to use them from existing tools, but luckily we are doing two things:

In this first example, we’ve seen how to install and configure the default Wildfly Docker images.

To summarize, here are the steps needed:

In future examples, we’ll see how to extend those images for Management or SSH/SCP usecases.

Rob Stryker

In computing, the Same Origin Policy is an important security concept for a number of browser-side programming languages, such as JavaScript. The policy permits scripts running on pages originating from the same site to access each other’s methods and properties with no specific restrictions, but prevents access to most methods and properties across pages on different sites. Basically, if the web application sends request to the same server, then there will be no restrictions and everything will work like a charm. However, if the request is sent to another server (Cross-domain request - XDR), the browser will block it with the following error:

In the general case there are several ways to do it:

Ripple and CordovaSim use Proxy approach for handling Cross-domain AJAX.

There is a Cross Domain Proxy setting in CordovaSim / Ripple. Basically, Cross-domain AJAX work depends drastically on it. User can choose between three options:

In the 4.2.3.Beta1 and 4.3.0.Alpha1 releases a security warning for "Remote" proxy was added.

To put it in a nutshell, there is no silver bullet for handling all Cross-domain AJAX requests in CordovaSim / Ripple, due to the fact that it dramatically depends on the server side setup. So, if one has faced the issue coupled with the Same Origin Policy / Cross-Domain AJAX (i.e. GET / POST / PUT / DELETE requests the hybrid app is trying to perform are either blocked by the browser or server returns 5XX error), the first thing they should do is to "play" with Cross Domain Proxy settings. Using one of the options must definitely tackle the problem.
Have fun!

Ilya Buziuk
@ilyabuziuk

There are a lot of improvements and bugfixes and I just want to pick the most important things for now. You can see a full list of changes in the What’s New section for the release.

You probably already used the tracing functionality for a running Camel Context, but now we are happy to finally give you a Camel Debugger. Using the Eclipse Debug Framework we created our own Camel Debugger which works fully through the design view of the Camel editor. Here you can set your breakpoints (static and conditional ones) and breakpoints hit are highlighted in your design view. Instead of using the "Run as → Local Camel Context" menu you can now use the "Debug as → Local Camel Context" to startup the Context in debug mode. Once a breakpoint is hit Eclipse will automatically change to the Eclipse Debug perspective.

Step through your routes, add watch expressions, change message content on the fly or simply monitor what your routes do with the messages. Add a conditional breakpoint if you only want to debug on a certain condition. You choose the condition language and you setup the condition in an easy to use expression builder.

Over the past weeks we worked on improvements regarding the usability of our Camel Route Designer. The result of that work is that we introduced a new drawer to the palette of the designer which provides easy to use items for Apache Camel Components. In the past you had to know that the Endpoint palette entry has to be used to create a connector for a Camel component just by prepending the right protocol name to the endpoints uri attribute field. That still left you alone in adding the correct Maven dependency to your projects pom.xml. When you now drop a component connector to the route the pom.xml gets updated automatically so you don’t need to care any longer.

Starting with version 2.14 the Apache Camel developers started implementing a model to determine URI parameters and their meta data. We now use the provided functionality to give our users improved property pages for the Apache Camel Components.

(the above image shows the properties for a file connector endpoint)

Our server adapters have been reworked and we now provide adapters for the latest version of Apache ServiceMix, Apache Karaf and JBoss Fuse.

The wizard pages for creating the servers have been reworked too and you are now able to download the binaries directly from within your Eclipse session.

Another thing to mention is that we replaced the old deployment options in favor to the modules publishing way using the servers view. You can select the server entry there and choose to Add or Remove modules to/from the server. The deployed projects from your local workspace will be visible as a child node under the server item. Depending on your settings for the server publishing options your application will be republished automatically when it gets out of sync / is changed locally.

I hope you enjoy the new stuff. Have fun!

Lars Heinemann

This version of JBoss Tools targets Eclipse Mars 4.5 (M5).

We recommend using the Eclipse 4.5 JEE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you use our update site directly:

Note: Marketplace entry and Integration Stack tooling will become available from JBoss Central at a later date.

As always there is more than can be covered in a single blog but here are some of my favorites. You can see everything in the What’s New section for this release.

The initial work on providing a structured editor for Java EE 7 Batch job.xml files are in. The editor is based on Eclipse Sapphire and over time we want to extend it for smarter content assist both in the structured editor but also in the source view.

Furthermore for Java EE 7 we’ve now added auto enablement of CDI for Java EE 7 projects. Meaning the tools also now honor Java EE 7 CDI spec about no longer requiring beans.xml for activating CDI.

BrowserSim adds skins and layout for iPhone 6 devices.

These skins and others are also available in BrowserSim Standalone mode which allow you to run Browersim without depending on a full Eclipse install.

You can use this "oneliner" to try it out:

If you are on OSX you need this one:

We’ve extended the HTML5 palette to allow easier adding of often used html5 elements.

This grew the palete to be rather big thus we came up with adding a 'Most popular' slot so you always have easy access to the elements you used most often.

The following video shows how that works.

If you are a FeedHenry user we’ve now added support for easy importing and running of your FeedHenry Cordova applications.

Apache Cordova support now includes support for Windows Phone projects (requires you to run on Windows still though :)

This also adds support for running Windows Phone Emulator.

This feature is actually part of Eclipse M5 and not directly JBoss Tools but I wanted to mention it because the feature is awesome and it was contributed by us by the great work of Mickael Istria.

In Eclipse M5 the Project Explorer now have a "Projects Presentation" in its view menu. Allowing you to switch from the traditional "Flat" view to the new "Hiearchical". This new option lets you view the projects as they are structured on the filesystem as opposed to one big flat list.

This is especially super helpful for those who have large multimodule Maven projects. Now you can get some sanity back.

While we wait for feedback on Alpha1, we are already working on what will become Alpha2. Some of the things that are moving here are:

As always, ask/suggest away and we’ll keep you posted!

Have fun!

Max Rydahl Andersen
@maxandersen

This is a JBoss Developer Studio/JBoss Tools maintenance update for Eclipse Luna with critical security and performance bug fixes.

JBoss Developer Studio 8.0.2 includes Eclipse Luna SR1a Git Security Release which has a fix for a serious security vulnerability in JGit client. You can read more here.

JBoss Central software page had a performance regression that caused the page to take several pages to load where it should only be a few miliseconds. That is fixed.

And we fixed it so Early Access features (like integration stack) can now contribute wizards to central when users have enabled Early access.

The included Forge 2 runtime is now 2.13.0.Final. See the release notes here.

We are working on the next update witch will be based on Eclipse Luna SR2 and the first milestone (Alpha) for Eclipse Mars is coming soon.

Enjoy!

Alexey Kazakov