New versions of JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio

This week, JBoss is releasing the next release of JBDS studio (3.0.0GA) and JBoss Tools plug-ins (3.1.0GA). New versions of products contain a number of bug fixes, as well as changes in functionality and the creation of a more user-friendly user interface, which is aimed at simplifying work with all supported technologies.

JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio are designed to work with JBoss technologies such as JBoss AS, JBoss Seam, JBoss jBPM, Hibernate, JBoss Drools, JBoss ESB, RichFaces, JBoss Portal.
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Both products are based on the Eclipse IDE and the Eclipse WTP project. This allows you to develop J2EE applications based on solutions provided by other implementers of the J2EE technology stack - Sun, Weblogic, etc.

JBoss Tools is a collection of Eclipse plug-ins available for free download. In turn, JBoss Developer Studio is a complete set of software necessary for developing and running J2EE applications.

Both products have full technical support and detailed updated documentation.

A short list of changes in the set of plugins JBoss Tools release 3.1.0 GA

Core / General - offset configuration options.

JBoss AS Tools - shortcut for “Full publish”, timeout for JMX Poller is entered.
Project Examples - a detailed description of the requirements for running examples has been added. Hibernate Tools - Hibernate Tools updated from version 3.1.2 to version 3.3.2, updated wizards, work with tabs, updated Diagram Viewer.
Visual Page Editor - The Visual Page Editor now works on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64, it is possible to add templates for unknown tags through VPE Preferences, support for new JSF 2.0 tags, etc.
CDI (JSR-299) Tools - improved validation and configuration of projects.
BPEL Tools - fixed bugs in working with BPEL files with ODE extension and creating Wait and onAlarm functions.
ESB Tools - updated editors.
Maven Tools - JBoss Maven Integration has been updated to m2eclipse 0.10.0.
JST / JSF Tools - improved Code Assists, updated Web XML editors, JSP / XHTML, and more.
Portal tools - the portlet facets recognize the GateIn portal.

JBoss Tools project page: http://www.jboss.org/tools
Download link: https://www.jboss.org/tools/download/stable/3_1_GA.html
Update version: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/JBossTools-3.1.0.GA/ or http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/galileo/
The latest documentation build (Nightly docs): http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/nightly-docs/
Small flash videos on using JBoss Tools: http://docs.jboss.org/tools/movies/
Community: http://www.jboss.org/tools/community.html

Component Versions of JBoss Developer Studio Release 3.0.0GA

• Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo)
• JBoss Tools 3.1.0
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0

A short list of the changes made studio JBoss Developer Studio release 3.0.0GA

Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) - The Contexts and Dependency Injection Project Facet has been added to the JBoss Developer Studio, the Project menu includes new options (Add CDI Support and Remove CDI Support), etc.
ESB - changed ESB Content Based Router, added new functionality in ESB Configuration Editor, officially supports ESB 4.7, which is contained in JBoss SOA Platform 5.0, etc.
Hibernate - Refactoring support has been added to the Hibernate Code Generation Configurations, the functionality of the New Hibernate XML Mapping file wizard has been changed, the Hibernate Diagram Viewer, Mapping Diagram viewer, etc. has been updated.
JavaServer Faces (JSF) - improved performance of PageContextFactory, support for JSF 2.0 structural components has been made, work of the Eclipse OpenOn function, etc. has been fixed.
RichFaces - RichFaces libraries have been updated to version 3.3.2.SR1. and etc.
Seam - fixed build and validation of Seam projects using Preferences, Seam examples of Booking and DVDStore are updated to Seam 2.2 for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, etc.
Smooks - Smooks Reader page has been replaced by the Input page, changes have been made to its functionality, testing of Smooks projects has been simplified, etc.
Struts - Add and Remove Struts support options have been added to the project menu.
Visual Page Editor - fixed bugs causing “memory leaks”, added support for JSF 2.0 attributes, changed icon design, added new option to select the previous and next elements immediately after the central one, etc.
XHTML Editor - added tooltips for tags and attributes.
XML Structured Editor - simplified selection of servlets for web.xml, improved by Servlet Mapping Editor.
General Issues - added SSH deployment, added a new wizard for exporting operations for using Imodule objects, JBoss Tools Palette is integrated into standard Eclipse GEF view, etc.

JBoss Developer Studio project page: http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio/

Everyone can contribute to the development of JBoss products by posting a notice of the defect, or write a request for the necessary functionality in the JIRA project management system: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE

ps I'd love to transfer this topic to the Java Enterprise Edition blog.