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MyEclipse 5.5 M1 Now Available with Light-weight SNAP RCP Apps    

Posted by: myeclipse - on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 01:56 PM
 
The first milestone release of MyEclipse 5.5 is now available for immediate download at the MyEclipse web site (www.myeclipseide.com).  The 5.5M1 release includes major enhancements and bug fixes for the MyEclipse environment,  most notably the advent of Genuitec's Fusion technology and the new MyEclipse SNAPs lightweight RCP applications.

Please review the special instructions, release notes and the New and Noteworthy before download.  More information on SNAPs can be found here.  Notable enhancements include:
  • Platform support:
    • Eclipse 3.2.1 compatible
    • Built on an MyEclipse-WTP, an enhanced version of WTP 1.5.2
  • Multi-product distribution on Windows:
    •  Includes the MyEclipse IDE and 4 all new simple non-integrated developer applications ( SNAPs) for quick nonIDE-based development tasks:
      • MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench (IDE, all platforms, Standard & Pro subscriptions supported)
      • MyEclipse HTML Designer application (Windows, Standard subscription)
      • MyEclipse Image Editor application with screen-capture (Windows, Pro subscription)
      • MyEclipse XML Editor application (Windows, Standard subscription)
      • MyEclipse Database Explorer application (Windows, Pro subscription required for advanced features)
  • SNAP Developer Tools
    • These non-IDE special purpose applications are fully integrated with Windows
      • Appear as fully native Windows applications to the end user
      • Registered as the default application for Images, HTML pages, XML files and database files
      • Dbl-click launch with any associated file type in the Windows explorer
        • Uses current SNAP instance if running
      • Applications are listed in Windows OpenWith... dialog
  • Visual Web Designer
    • All new UI layout reduces editor modes to 2:
      • Design mode includes a split panel with WYSIWYG design panel and HTML/JSP source editor panel
      • Preview mode includes a split panel for simultaneous preview in Internet Explorer and Mozilla
  • New screen-capture feature:
    • Integrated advanced screen-capture support to grab images of desktop, window, and user region (Windows, Pro subscription)
    • Integrated to launch MyEclipse Image Editor for viewing and editing capture images
  • Database improvements:
    • New advanced MySQL database development features (Pro subscription required)
      • View, create and run MySQL 5 procedures and functions
      • View special MySQL server information on any database entity
      • Create new MySQL database wizard
    • Import database connection profiles from other MyEclipse workspaces
    • Simplified DB Browser View toolbar
    • Simplified SQL Editor toolbar
    • Added Exported Keys information to the Table/Object view
  • Hibernate improvements:
    • Reverse engineering supports Spring-based projects
    • Added Criteria Editor (recognizes Spring-Hibernate configuration data)
    • HQL Editor improved (recognizes Spring-Hibernate configuration data)
    • Reverse-engineering wizard supports:
      • New column exclusion option
      • Custom reverse engineering strategies
    • Improved SessionFactory implementation for better thread safety
    • Upgraded MyEclipse Hibernate Workbench to support compatibility with JBoss Hibernate Tools, beta-8
  • Spring improvements:
    • Spring 2 capabilities added including upgraded Bean Wizard
    • Includes Spring 2.0.2 libraries
  • Web Services improvements:
    • Upgraded to support XFire 1.2.4
    •  Improved reliability in the Top-down and Web Service Client wizards. They now employ a WSDL validation step to identify incompatible WSDL before the code generation phase.
    • XMLBeans data binding properly supported
  • MyUML improvements:
    • Cut, Copy, Paste now supported for classes and interfaces on and between Class diagrams
    • Sequence diagrams now accept existing classes, interfaces and actors to serve as roles
    • Drag-and-drop better supported between the outline and class and sequence diagrams
  • Image Editor improvements:
    • General improvement of edit experience including better cut, copy, paste operations
  • MyEclipse Web Project
    • New Web Project wizard now generates a default index.jsp page
  • Usability improvements:
    • File View added to provide Windows File Explorer type browsing and visibility of file system resources
    • Image Preview now includes image size information
  • Installer improvements: