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We’re getting closer to GA - JBoss Tools Integration Stack 4.2.0.Beta2 / JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack 8.0.0.Beta2

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

JBoss Business Process and Rules Development

BPEL Designer - Orchestrating your business processes.
BPMN2 Modeler - A graphical modeling tool which allows creation and editing of Business Process Modeling Notation diagrams using graphiti.
Drools - A Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing.
jBPM - A flexible Business Process Management (BPM) suite.

JBoss Data Virtualization Development

Modeshape - A distributed, hierarchical, transactional and consistent data store with support for queries, full-text search, events, versioning, references, and flexible and dynamic schemas. It is very fast, highly available, extremely scalable, and it is 100% open source.
Teiid Designer - A visual tool that enables rapid, model-driven definition, integration, management and testing of data services without programming using the Teiid runtime framework.

JBoss Integration and SOA Development

All of the Business Process and Rules Development plugins, plus…
Fuse Apache Camel Tooling - A graphical tool for integrating software components that works with Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and the FuseSource distributions.
SwitchYard - A lightweight service delivery framework providing full lifecycle support for developing, deploying, and managing service-oriented applications.

SOA 5.x Development

JBoss ESB - An enterprise service bus for connecting enterprise applications and services.
jBPM3 - A flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.x compatible version.

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

Installation

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.Beta2 integration stack is available as "Early Access" so you must check the "Enable Early Access" checkbox in the installer window. 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:

 Help > Install New Software...
 Add...
 - use this for 'Location:'
   https://devstudio.redhat.com/updates/8.0-development/integration-stack/

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.Beta2 integration stack is available as "Early Access" so you must check the "Enable Early Access" checkbox in the installer window. 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:

 Help > Install New Software...
 Add...
 - use this for 'Location:'
   http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/luna/integration-stack/

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

--launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.appendVmargs -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms512m -Xmx1024m

What’s Been Updated?

We’re getting closer to the final release date. You’ll notice feature source bundles are available from all of the integration stack components. For more specifics see:

The JBoss Tools website features tab

Don’t miss the Features tab for up to date information on your favorite Integration Stack components.

Give it a try!

Paul Leacu.

Recently several people have asked me the following question:

How can I test Nexus 9 / Moto G / LG G3 etc. via BrowserSim? There is no such device in the preference list.

— BrowserSim user

Actually, it’s extremely easy to do…

Basic concepts

Firstly, let’s introduce several fundamental concepts which we will need in the further discussion:

Physical pixel - the cell in the device’s display matrix.
Display resolution - the number of distinct physical pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. For instance, resolution 640 × 1136 means that the width of the display is 640 pixels and the height is 1136.
Pixel Ratio - the value which determines how a device’s screen resolution is interpreted by the CSS. Basically, CSS interprets a device’s resolution by the formula: Display Resolution / Pixel Ratio.
For example, iPhone 5s has the following parameters:
- Display Resolution: 640 x 1136
- Pixel Ratio: 2
- CSS Interpreted Resolution: (640 / 2) x (1136 / 2) = 320 x 568

The reason why pixel ratio was created is due to the fact that screens of the modern phones have high resolution. So, if devices with high resolution had pixel ratio of 1 (i.e. CSS Interpreted Resolution = Display Resolution), then it would be almost impossible to browse on the Internet cause the content would be too small to see.

User-Agent - HTTP header that identifies the client software. When you open a web page, your web browser includes a user-agent header in the request sent to the server that hosts the website. This string essentially introduces your browser to the server, describing which browser version you are using and relating other information about your computer or mobile device, such as the operating system and its version. The server can use this information to provide content that is tailored for your specific browser.

How to add custom device?

Now let’s move from theory to practice. Run BrowserSim, open preferences (Right click → Preferences…) and push the Add button on the Devices tab :

The Add Device dialog will be shown:

Now all you need is to input correct data for your specific device and press the "OK" button - newly created device will be added to the preferences. Let’s practice on the real sample - Microsoft Lumia 928. This phone has the following parameters:

Display Width: 768
Dispaly Height: 1280
Pixel Ratio: 2.4
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows Phone 8.0; Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 928)

All device specific information can be easily found on the web

Unfortunatelly, there is no Microsoft Lumia skin yet, so you will have to select some other one. Of course this doesn’t make the experience smooth and complete but you will be able to achieve the main aim: test and reproduce layout issues for that device. Although we are trying to update the list of skin / devices, we won’t be able to cover every single case anyway. So, from time to time you will need to do it manually. By the way, in the brand new 8.0.1.GA release we have added IPhone 6 / 6 plus devices:

BrowserSim standalone

For those who don’t use Eclipse / JBoss Developer Studio there is a standalone mode of BrowserSim. More details about BrowserSim standalone can be found in the following blog.

Conclusion

We are trying our best to make our tools as good as possible. User feedback is what we are seeking for now. We look forward to hearing your comments, remarks and proposals.
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!
Have fun!

Ilya Buziuk
@ilyabuziuk

Maintenance update of JBoss Tools 4.2.1 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8.0.1 for Eclipse Luna is now available.

Installation

JBoss Developer Studio 8.0.1

This is an updatesite-only update. If you have JBoss Developer Studio 8.0.0.GA already installed, just run:

Help > Check for updates

JBoss Tools 4.2.1 and JBoss Developer Studio Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE)

JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE) require at least Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) but we recommend using the Eclipse Luna SR1 Java EE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled. Once you have installed Eclipse, you can find us on Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools (Luna)" or "JBoss Developer Studio (Luna)".

For JBoss Tools you can also use our update site directly if you are up for it.

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

What is new ?

This maintenance release includes mostly bug fixes but there are also a few new features which we would like to mention.

BrowserSim and CordovaSim skins for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

Brand new IPhone 6 / 6 plus skins are now available in BrowserSim and CordovaSim

OpenShift Explorer: Start and Stop Applications

You can now start and stop your OpenShift-hosted application within Eclipse. OpenShift tools offers start- and stop-actions in the context menu of the server adapter and the application in the OpenShift Explorer.

Arquillian validator for not public/static deployment method

The Arquillian validator creates a marker and a quick fix if a test contains a deployment method that is not public and/or static.

CDI auto enablement for Java EE 7 projects

CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) support is now enabled automatically for Eclipse Web Tools faceted projects if they have any Java EE 7 facet. For example if you create a project via New Dynamic Web Project Wizard and select Web facet v.3.1 you don’t need to enable CDI support in project properties or to install CDI facet. CDI Tools will do it automatically.

Updated Forge 2 Runtime

The included Forge 2 runtime is now 2.12.3.Final.

What is Next

More maintenance updates for Eclipse Luna are planned and we continue to work on the major release for Eclipse Mars but it’s all for 2015!

Happy Holidays and a joyful New Year!

Alexey Kazakov

JBoss Tools Integration Stack 4.2.0.Beta1 / JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack 8.0.0.Beta1

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

JBoss Business Process and Rules Development

BPEL Designer - Orchestrating your business processes.
BPMN2 Modeler - A graphical modeling tool which allows creation and editing of Business Process Modeling Notation diagrams using graphiti.
Drools - A Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing.
jBPM - A flexible Business Process Management (BPM) suite.

JBoss Data Virtualization Development

Modeshape - A distributed, hierarchical, transactional and consistent data store with support for queries, full-text search, events, versioning, references, and flexible and dynamic schemas. It is very fast, highly available, extremely scalable, and it is 100% open source.
Teiid Designer - A visual tool that enables rapid, model-driven definition, integration, management and testing of data services without programming using the Teiid runtime framework.

JBoss Integration and SOA Development

All of the Business Process and Rules Development plugins, plus…
Fuse Apache Camel Tooling - A graphical tool for integrating software components that works with Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and the FuseSource distributions.
SwitchYard - A lightweight service delivery framework providing full lifecycle support for developing, deploying, and managing service-oriented applications.

SOA 5.x Development

JBoss ESB - An enterprise service bus for connecting enterprise applications and services.
jBPM3 - A flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.x compatible version.

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

Installation

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…

jbtis luna em

Once Developer Studio is installed, restart Eclipse and select the Software/Update tab in the JBoss Central view. The current 8.0.0.Beta1 integration stack is available as "Early Access" so you must check the "Enable Early Access" checkbox in the installer window. Select the items you’d like to install:

jbdsis ea

The standard p2 installer is available for JBDSIS. Simply start jbdevstudio or eclipse-with-jbds, then:

       Help > Install New Software...
       Add...
       - use this for 'Location:'
         https://devstudio.redhat.com/updates/8.0-development/integration-stack/

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

jbtis luna em

Once JBoss Tools is installed, restart Eclipse and select the Software/Update tab in the JBoss Central view. The current 4.2.0.Beta1 integration stack is available as "Early Access" so you must check the "Enable Early Access" checkbox in the installer window. Select the items you’d like to install:

jbtis ea

The standard p2 installer is available for JBTIS. Simply start eclipse-with-jbt, then:

       Help > Install New Software...
       Add...
       - use this for 'Location:'
         http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/luna/integration-stack/

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

--launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.appendVmargs -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms512m -Xmx1024m

What’s Been Updated?

This is a Beta1 release so some things are in flux but virtually every component has something new or updated. Here’s a small list of what’s new:

BPMN2 Modeler

See https://www.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/whatsnew/whatsnew-1.1.1.php

Fuse Tooling

Improved server adapters for JBoss Fuse Tooling. More logical deployment and publishing of your projects from the Servers view.
There’s new Camel route debug support in the Fuse Camel route editor.

See Lars Heinemann’s Blog for more insights.

Teiid Designer

Three releases for Teiid Designer, see Teiid Designer 8.4, Teiid Designer 8.5 and Teiid Designer 8.6 What’s New.

Keep up to date with the JBoss Tools home

Don’t miss the Features tab for up to date information on your favorite Integration Stack component!

In this article, I’m happy to introduce you new BrowserSim / CordovaSim features, which are available in the new JBoss Developer Studio 8.0.0.GA. Basically, I want to focus on:

JavaFx web engine
Eclipse console logging
Dev Tools Debugger

JavaFx web engine

BrowserSim and CordovaSim have a new JavaFx web engine as an alternative to SWT WebKit. In the original there was only one web engine - SWT WebKit. Unfortunately, it has several drawbacks. For example, using SWT WebKit on Windows requires Apple Safari installation (provides SWT WebKit engine), which is pretty obsolete for now - May 9, 2012 is the date of the last update. Moreover, SWT WebKit doesn’t support Debugger API. Due to these limitations it was decided to add JavaFX web engine support. Web engine can be changed in Menu → Preferences → Settings Tab → Browser Engine.

If you want to use JavaFX web engine, you need to run BrowserSim / CordovaSim against Oracle JDK version 7 or higher (version 8 is recommended)

Eclipse console logging

Eclipse console logging is available for both SWT Webkit and JavaFx web engines. Now the output of the main javascript console functions (console.log, console.info, console.warn, console.error) is displayed in the Eclipse console.

Dev Tools Debugger

Dev Tools Debugger is available only for JavaFx web engine. One can connect the debugger to the BrowserSim / CordovaSim (Right click → Debug → Dev Tools…) and step through the code, introspect variables and so forth.

Demo

Here is a short demo video with the new features:

All these features are also available for CordovaSim

BrowserSim standalone

For one who doesn’t use Eclipse / JBoss Developer Studio there is a standalone mode of BrowserSim. However, only SWT WebKit web engine is supported (we are planning to add JavaFx support in the next releases - JBIDE-18703). More details about BrowserSim standalone can be found in the following blog.

BrowserSim FAQ

BrowserSim FAQ can be found here. If you wasn’t able to find the answer, just post your question in the comments to this blog.

Known issues

Dev Tools Debugger doesn’t work properly with the Oracle JDK 8u20. I do hope it will be fixed in the upcoming JDK releases - RT-38918, JBIDE-18526
JavaFx which is shipped with Oracle JDK 7 has no localStorage support. Fortunately, it is fixed in JDK 8 - RT-29584
JavaFx which is shipped with Oracle JDK 7 has no WebSocket support, which is vital for LiveReload functionality. So, LiveReload doesn’t work with Oracle JDK 7 for JavaFx web engine. Fortunately, it is fixed in JDK 8 - RT-14947
JavaFx HTML 5 Date and time inputs do not function properly - RT-34974, JBIDE-17054

Conclusion

We are trying our best to make our tools as good as possible. User feedback is what we are seeking for now. We look forward to hearing your comments, remarks and proposals. Please, comment below about features you would you like to have in the upcoming releases!
Have fun!

Ilya Buziuk
@ilyabuziuk

The day has finally come!

JBoss Tools 4.2 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 for Eclipse Luna is now available.

Installation

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

java -jar jboss-devstudio-{version}-installer-{standalone|eap}.jar

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 SR1 Java EE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you can either find us on Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools (Luna)" or "JBoss Developer Studio (Luna)".

For JBoss Tools you can also use our update site directly if you are up for it.

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

What is new ?

There have been many feature additions and a lot of bugfixing polish going into this main release and these have been documented/described in details at What’s New.

The main headlines are:

Better Apache Cordova Tooling
Early Access section in JBoss Central
Better JavaScript content assist via Tern
Experimental AngularJS support
Ionic Palette
OpenShift Quickstarts
Forge 2 Integrated (Forge 1 deprecated)
BrowserSim using JavaFX Webbrowser
JMX/VM Monitoring of local process
HTML5 visual preview and navigation
Deployment via WildFly/EAP Management API’s
Support remote only Server runtimes
Support JBoss Modules dependencies
..and much more

Where is integration stack tooling ?

The integration stack covers the tooling for Fuse, Drools, jBPM, SwitchYard, JBoss ESB etc.

I’m happy to announce that we for now have made them available as "Early access" in JBoss Tools under JBoss Central Software/Update page.

In the near future it is planned to also show up in JBoss Developer Studio and eventually be available as fully supported.

Thank You!

This release would not have been possible without feedback and contributions from our community and the team(s) around Developer Studio. For that I’m truly grateful. Any contribution counts!

The following people have participated in this release with either code, ideas, feedback and testing:

Alexander Silgidjian, Alexey Pakseykin, Andrei Ivanov, Andy Goldstein, Antonio Goncalves, Asif Kilwani, Axel Wathne, Chris West, Chunyun Chen, Clovis Seragiotto, Cody Lerum, Cojan van Ballegooijen, Daniel Castro, Daniel Cunha, Daniel Dekany, Darren hartford, Darryl Miles, Eduardo de souza, Emily Brand, Ender Wiggin, Eric Barber, Filippo rossoni, Guillaume Jouvelot, Harald Wellmann, Henk de boer, Hermes Waldemarin, Hernán Chanfreau, Igor Jacy Lino Campista, Jeffrey Simpson, Jesper Skov, Jim Boettcher, Joe Guzzardo, Jorge Yagüe París, Josh B, Juergen Zimmermann, Karl Pietrzak, Labdoui labdoui, Luke Maurer, Marcel Neuwohner, Martin Lippert, Masao Kunii, Mikhail Kalkov, Nan wei, Nero M, Nicolas duminil, Oliver Pfau, Palmer Eldritch, Patrick Decat, Paul Richardson, Pei-Tang Huang, Radosław Józwik, Rainer Schön, Randall Smith, Rich DiCroce, Robert Baty, Robert Munteanu, Roman Ilin, Ron Ratovsky, Sebastien Deleuze, Stephen Neal, Suz Dorfield, Sébastien Pinel, Tagir Valeev, Thiago andrade, Thomas Maslen, Weiweijiang jiang, Wolfgang Knauf, Zerr Angelo, Alexander Kurtakov, Alexey Kazakov, Aliaksey Nis, Andre Dietisheim, Andrea Vibelli, Andrej Podhradsky, Arun Gupta, Aslak Knutsen, Barry LaFond, Boleslaw Dawidowicz, Brenton Leanhardt, Brian Fitzpatrick, Burr Sutter, Catherine Robson, Corey Daley, Daniel Azarov, David Chia, David Hladky, David Stephan, Denis Golovin, Denis Maliarevich, Duncan Doyle, Emil Cervenan, Emmanuel Bernard, Eric Rich, Fred Bricon, Gavin King, George Gastaldi, Gorkem Ercan, Ilya Buziuk, Isaac Rooskov, Jakub Niedermertl, James Cobb, Jane Murphey, Jaroslav Jankovič, Jeff Cantrill, Jim Tyrrell, Jiri Pallich, Jiri Peterka, Joshua Wilson, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Juraj Húska, Karel Piwko, Koen Aers, Konstantin Marmalyukov, Krzysztof Daniel, Lars Heinemann, Len DiMaggio, Lincoln Baxter III, Lucia Jelinkova, Lukáš Fryč, Marek Novotny, Marek Schmidt, Marius Bogoevici, Marián Labuda, Martin Malina, Matthias Wessendorf, Max Rydahl Andersen, Maxim Areshkau, Michelle Murray, Mickael Istria, Mustafa Musaji, Nick Boldt, Paul Leacu, Pavol Srna, Pete Muir, Peter Palaga, Petr Stribny, Petr Suchý, Radim Hopp, Radoslav Rábara, Rafael Benevides, Rastislav Wagner, Rick Wagner, Rob Cernich, Rob Stryker, Robb Greathouse, Ron Šmeral, Sande Gilda, Sebastien Blanc, Snjezana Peco, Stefan Bunciak, Ståle Pedersen, Tadeas Kriz, Takayuki Konishi, Tomas Repel, Tomáš Sedmík, Travis Rogers, Van Halbert, Viacheslav Kabanovich, Victor Rubezhny, Vineet Reynolds, Vitali Yemialyanchyk, Vladimir Vasilev, Vlado Pakan, Vojtech Juranek, Xavier Coulon and Yahor Radtsevich.

Thank you!

If you like to be part of shaping the next update and major release please take a look at JBoss Tools Community Acceptance program! It will start up soon!

Hope you enjoy this release and remember…

Have fun!

Max Rydahl Andersen+ @maxandersen

Maintenance update of your favorite integration tools.

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

BPEL Designer - Orchestrating your business processes.
BPMN2 Modeler - A graphical modeling tool which allows creation and editing of Business Process Modeling Notation diagrams using graphiti.
Drools - A Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing.
JBoss ESB - An enterprise service bus for connecting enterprise applications and services.
Fuse Apache Camel Tooling - A graphical tool for integrating software components that works with Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and the FuseSource distributions.
jBPM3 - A flexible Business Process Management (BPM) Suite - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.x compatible version.
Modeshape - A distributed, hierarchical, transactional and consistent data store with support for queries, full-text search, events, versioning, references, and flexible and dynamic schemas. It is very fast, highly available, extremely scalable, and it is 100% open source.
SwitchYard - A lightweight service delivery framework providing full lifecycle support for developing, deploying, and managing service-oriented applications.
Teiid Designer - A visual tool that enables rapid, model-driven definition, integration, management and testing of data services without programming using the Teiid runtime framework.

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

Installation

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-kepler installed, you can install JBoss Developer Studio or JBoss Tools from the Eclipse Marketplace via Help > Eclipse Marketplace…

jbtis b1

Once Developer Studio is installed, restart Eclipse and select the Software/Update tab in the JBoss Central view and look for the JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack installation section. Select the items you’d like to install:

jbtis b2

The community JBoss Tools Integration Stack URL is:

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/kepler/integration-stack

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

--launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m --launcher.appendVmargs -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms512m -Xmx1024m

What’s Been Updated?

Fix release versions of Fuse Tooling 7.2.2, jBPM/Drools 6.1.0 and Teiid Designer 8.3.4. Also - there are updated ESB 1.5.310.Final project examples. Look for specific bug fixes in the Release Notes.

Keep up to date with the JBoss Tools home

Don’t miss the new Features tab for up to date information on your favorite Integration Stack component !

Happy to announce JBoss Tools 4.2 CR1 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 CR1 for Eclipse Luna is now available.

Installation

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

java -jar jboss-devstudio-{version}-installer-{standalone|eap}.jar

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 4.4 JEE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you either find us on Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools (Luna)" or "JBoss Developer Studio (Luna)".

For JBoss Tools you can also use our update site directly if you are up for it.

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/luna/

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

What is new ?

This release is mainly a big set of bug fixes but we managed to slip in a bunch of new features too.

Hotcode replace aware server adapter

Ever been annoyed by Eclipse’s "Hot Code Replace Failed" dialog and how it only offers you to Continue, Terminate or fully restart your running VM ?

Ever wonder why Eclipse couldn’t just restart your deployed modules and let you continue working without have to wait for a restart of the application server + your own application ?

If you can answer yes to the above, then you will be happy to hear we now support this.

Now, if you run a server in Debug mode and a hot code replace fails due to some class or jar changes, the dialog above will appear, giving you the option to restart the modules, terminate the server, restart the server, or just continue as if nothing happened.

But beyond this, it also offer you the option to "Remember this choice for this server", allowing you to click "Restart modules" once and then all subsequent hot code replace failures will automatically trigger a restart of just the modules.

This is probably my personal most wanted feature improvement in years - sorry for it to take so long but please do enjoy it now.

Hibernate Tools "rewired"

To support the latest Hibernate 4.3 and JPA 2.1 releases, we had to "rewire" large part of Hibernate Tools' internals. In the past Hibernate 3.6 was hardwired to be used for loading users mapping configurations for the UI - that is no longer the case. The configured version for your console configuration is now used everywhere instead of only for codegeneration.

I’ll spare you from the details here but just outline that the rewiring has been completed and we now support Hibernate 4.3 and JPA 2.1. But beyond that, previous versions should be much more stable now too!

If you do find discrepancies in this area, please let us know by opening a bug report.

New AngularJS Forge wizard

JBoss Central now features a new AngularJS with Forge project wizard to let you kickstart new JavaEE based applications almost from scratch, using the powerful JBoss Forge scaffolding capabilities.

You will be asked to install Forge Tools, if it is not already installed. The wizard will also recommend you to install the AngularJS tooling.

Once you create the project skeleton from the new wizard, a cheatsheet will open and will guide you through the different steps necessary to use JBoss Forge and scaffold REST endpoints and a UI layer based on AngularJS.

Please be aware that if you enable "Early Access" on JBoss Central you will get even better AngularJS suport (see below).

Updated AngularJS tooling

AngularJS IDE v.0.5.0 is now available in JBoss Central Early Access (go to the software/updates page in JBoss Central and click on the Early Access checkbox). Biggest change here is that the Angular JS editor is no longer needed and has been removed. Instead, content assist, code highlighting and easy navigation for AngularJS are now available from the standard and JBoss Tools HTML editors.

More Ionic goodies for mobile development

More widget components have been added to the Ionic Palette for HTML5 files. See the New and Noteworthy page for a complete list of newly available widgets.

When an Ionic widget is added to an HTML file, the links to Ionic JS/CSS CDN resources may also be created automatically.

Content assist (Ctrl+Space) for <ion-*> tags and their attributes is now supported by the JBoss Tools HTML editor.

Pom properties activated m2e configurators

JBoss project configurators for m2e now support an activation property in the <properties> section of pom.xml. Expected values are true/false and override the workspace-wide preferences found under Preferences > JBoss Tools > JBoss Maven Integration.

Available properties are :

<m2e.cdi.activation>true</m2e.cdi.activation> for the CDI Project configurator,
<m2e.seam.activation>true</m2e.seam.activation> for the Seam Project configurator,
<m2e.hibernate.activation>true</m2e.hibernate.activation> for the Hibernate Project configurator,
<m2e.portlet.activation>true</m2e.portlet.activation> for the Portlet Project configurator.

Using these are good if you find our automatic detection is too eager or too weak in finding that you need the plugins setup for CDI, Seam, Hibernate or Portlet features.

The pom.xml editor also provides matching XML templates for these properties, when doing ctrl+space in the <properties> section.

…and more

There are more improvements covered in the more details: What’s New.

What is Next

The next release is set to be the last candidate release, so please, do try this one out and give feedback to make sure you’ll have a good experience with JBoss Tools on Eclipse Luna!

Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Hope you enjoy it and remember…

Have fun!

Max Rydahl Andersen & Fred Bricon
@maxandersen @fbricon

Happy to announce JBoss Tools 4.2 Beta3 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 Beta3 for Eclipse Luna is now available.

Installation

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

java -jar jboss-devstudio-{version}-installer-{standalone|eap}.jar

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 4.4 JEE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you either find us on Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools (Luna)" or "JBoss Developer Studio (Luna)".

For JBoss Tools you can also use our update site directly if you are up for it.

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/luna/

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

What is new ?

This release is mainly a bunch of bug fixes but also a few new features and a very important regression fix.

Better Plugin Management for Apache Cordova

Our Hybrid Mobile Tools now supports automatically downloading the plugins listed in your config.xml giving you two benefits:

Allow you to exclude the physical plugin binaries from your source control
On import the right plugin will be fetched dynamically, great for sharing examples and code.

Also don’t forget we have proposed and contributed Hybrid Mobile Tools at Eclipse under Eclipse Thym.

CordovaSim is now less meme-compatible

CordovaSim using Ripple had a "easter-egg" in the sense when you used a Cordova plugin that the Ripple engine did not understand would show a dialog titled "I Haz Cheeseburger?!?!". Great for those with a great love for internet memes but it was not very informative.

Now we provide a less meme heavy dialog letting the user know what plugin that is not supported and allow you to not have to see the message again.

Btw. if you use a popular and/or important plugin that is not supported open a jira or PR against CordovaSim.

Ionic framework in palette

We’ve added support for Ionic framework. Ionic is a AngularJS based framework that provides nice mobile components that works especially well with Cordova based application.

Maven Central archetype catalog

One of the improvements in m2e 1.5 for Luna was that it no longer by default download the Nexus indexes for all repositories by default. It was simply too slow.

Thus that had to go but by removingt this the list of archetypes for the 'New Maven Project' was heavily reduced.

In Beta3 we’ve added the Maven Central Archetype catalog meaning you get access to ~9600 archetypes in a few seconds vs several minutes in pre m2e 1.5 days.

Review commit changes when pushing to OpenShift

When pushing changes to OpenShift and you have uncommitted changes we now show a variation of the standard git commit dialog allowing you to be selective about what files you want to get committed/added before your push.

Review changes before committing to OpenShift

JMX Navigator grouping of connections

With all the great additions to the JMX tooling in last beta we realized the JMX Navigator view could benefit from having its connections grouped by type.

Allows you to more easily find what you are looking for and when auto-discovered connections come and go the view stays stable.

Fixed incremental deployment regression

…and finally we fixed a rather severe regression in our server tools. The server adapter were triggering full redeployments if your project had certain type or module or jar dependencies.

Making your development workflow really slow compared to the more or less instant feedback you should get when just updating dynamic content like html or jsf.

Sorry for having that broken but now it is fixed - thus if you felt the server publishing was slow then please try it now! It should be back to its fast self again.

…and more

There are more improvements covered in the more detailed: What’s New.

What is Next

This Beta is the last planned Beta for JBoss Tools 4.2 and Developer Studio 8. The next release is set to be the candidate release thus please do try this release out and give feedback to make sure you’ll have a good experience with JBoss Tools on Eclipse Luna!

Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Hope you enjoy it and remember…

Have fun!

Max Rydahl Andersen
@maxandersen

It is time to get some more Eclipse Love out in the world - we start by shipping JBoss Tools 4.2 Beta2 and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 Beta2 for Eclipse Luna.

Nice, ain’t it?

Installation

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

java -jar jboss-devstudio-{version}-installer-{standalone|eap}.jar

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

This release requires at least Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) M7 but we recommend using the Eclipse 4.4 JEE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you either find us on Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools (Luna)" or "JBoss Developer Studio (Luna)".

For JBoss Tools you can also use our update site directly if you are up for it.

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/luna/

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

What is new ?

This Beta 2 contains quite some new additions that I believe you will like!

Java 8

To start with, this is now tested and developed against Eclipse Luna M7 and newer which means it comes with Java 8 tooling support out-of-the-box.

Early Access in JBoss Central

To allow users of JBoss Developer Studio to try out plugins which have not yet reached supported level more easily we’ve added the notion of Early Access to JBoss Central.

For now we’ve moved Eclipse VJET into this area and made Arquillian Tools and AngularJS available for Developer Studio users.

The "Early Access" features are from an isolated update site that only gets added if you press "Show Early Access" and when you unselect "Early Access" we will remove/disable those update sites thus you will not receive anymore updates of those features.

Try it out!

VPE is dead, long live VPE!

VPE has been refactored to use the new HTML Preview feature.

This means we will use your system native browser to preview HTML5 based pages (XHTML/JSF will still use the old XULRunner based browser if possible).

This new preview has much better Javascript support and just looks better.

If you do not like the split editor view you can also open it as a separate view which will show the HTML representation of editors that uses the WTP based XML DOM model (i.e. our html editor and wtp xml editors).

The preview supports navigating between source and the visual elements allowing you to easily find the right place in the code.

Better JavaScript

To improve Eclipse JSDT default JavaScript we’ve done many fixes to it that are available in stock Eclipse, but for JBoss Tools we’ve started to try use Tern behind the scenes via Angello Zerr’s angularjs-eclipse and tern-java projects.

In JBoss Tools Tern is now automatically enabled on Javascript based projects intended to give you much stronger and better content assist in addition to what Eclipse JSDT provides.

We are trying to make it that there is no user setup needed for most common javascript functionallity to work.

For example if you create a Hybrid Mobile Tooling project we will enable the support for Apache Cordova Javascript out of the box.

AngularJS support

As an experiemnt, we’ve made AngularJS available from JBoss Central under "Early Access" to give a try if you are an Angular user.

We are really interested in hearing if these improvements to JavaScript and Angular support work for you!

OpenShift Quickstarts

The OpenShift wizard now supports OpenShift’s notion of quickstarts or instant apps.

This means it is now possible to just use OpenShift Wizard in Eclipse to use one of the many custom defined quickstarts without having to use the browser.

Examples of interesting JBoss server related quickstarts are WildFly 8.1, AeroGear Push server and CapeDwarf.

OpenShift Snapshots

On request OpenShift now supports saving and restoring your OpenShift instances via Snapshots.

Local Java Process Monitoring via JMX Navigator on steroids!

The view before called 'MBeans Explorer' is now called 'JMX Navigator' and it now can do much more than before.

First off, it will automatically list locally detected Java Virtual Machines which you can connect to and browse their internal state via JMX MBeans.

Once you have this view open you can browse the MBeans, but with a little bit of magic you can also get various performance metrics displayed.

You can even get profiling info such as hotspots, memory usage etc.:

Basically, JBoss Tools now comes with a built-in Java profiler out of the box.

This functionallity originally comes from Fuse IDE which adopted jvmmonitor which we have now moved into JBoss Tools core to unify our access to JMX and Java processes.

JBoss Modules Classpath Container

Until now JBoss Tools core have used basic file patterns to find appropriate jars for your classpath and for introspecting the JBoss servers. With JBoss Modules where there can be multiple versions and several layers of patching this kind of simple file pattern searching is not sufficient.

Thus now our WildFly/JBoss EAP based servers understand the notion of JBoss Modules and will locate the proper module.

It even will detect if your manifest.mf has Dependencies and add them to the list of jboss modules to the classpath Eclipse will use for compiling.

…and more

There are more improvements in the areas of JAX-RS, Maven, Mobile palette, Forge. See details here: What’s New.

Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Hope you enjoy it and remember…

Have fun!

Max Rydahl Andersen
@maxandersen

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