| Visual HTML Designer (WYSIWYG), HTML Tidy Integration, Enhanced CSS and new Java Script Editors, Struts Modeler, JSF Editor, SunOne Connectors and Dependent project deployment for Eclipse 2.x
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench (www.myeclipseide.com [1]), version 2.8.0 beta-1
for Eclipse 2.1.* is now available for immediate download.
This release includes a considerable number features
and enhancements, and marks a significant transition
for MyEclipse into Rapid Application Development (RAD)
tooling. Main enhancements
include:
- RAD Tooling
- Visual
HTML Designer for WYSIWYG development, real-time preview mode,
and round trip source code generation. Currently available for WIN32
platform, The new integrated editor/viewer/designer offers a high
productivity and full featured visual HTML development environment.
Visual Struts/JSF and support for Linux and Mac OS/X are currently
under development.
- Image Previewer/Browser presents fast thumbnail
sized view of images in gif, jpg, png, bmp, and
ico formats. Display is based on the current selected
image in the workbench. This enables image browsing
through an image/icons folder using arrow up/down
key navigation for rapid image viewing.
- HTML formatting, validation, and error marking.
A rich set of user preferences are provided for
customization.
- Improved Struts [2]
wizards and introduction of Structured Element Editors. Form and
Action wizards now allow specification of custom superclass or an
existing class/superclass. Overall wizard design have been streamlined
to improve input efficiency.
- Improved Struts
Flow View. Primary enhancements include colorized nodes, resizable
and repositionable nodes, customizable flow connection routing,
and new auto-layout algorithm. The Flow View is currently being
reengineered to serve as a complete application flow modeling solution
for Struts and JSF application. The current Flow View features are
a very preliminary preview of core modeler features under development.
- Java
Server Faces (JSF) project support enables configuring any MyEclipse
web project with JSF libraries, tag-libraries, and application configuration
file.
- New and Enhanced Editors
- Enhanced
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) editor. Feature enhancements include:
- Smart editor with content assist, syntax
checking and color coding
- Outline view for easy navigation
- CSS property details
- Extensive customization and configuration
options
- New JavaScript
Editor. new JavaScript editor with baseline capabilities mainly
for color coding. Additional features will be added in follow on releases
based on user input.
- Sun Java System Application
Server Connector.Support for the Sun Java System application
server (8.0) is now available through a new MyEclipse server connector.
This connector allows developers to configure and start/stop a server
instance, deploy all MyEclipse J2EE project types, and perform JSR-045
native JSP debugging and hot-swap Java debugging. MyEclipse is the first
J2EE IDE to support native JSP debugging per the JSR 045 specification
and hot-sync exploded project deployment.
- Smart Dependent Project Deployment.
MyEclipse J2EE project deployer now supports advanced
deployment of dependent Java projects. With this release,
any Java project that is on the classpath of a web
project can be configured to be automatically packaged
for deployment of the web project through global workspace
preferences or at the web project properties level.
Now hot-sync deployment will detect changed resources
in dependent projects and seamlessly deploy them along
with the primary project.
Please review
New and Noteworthy Section and Release
Notes for screen shots and enhancement/bug fixes
included in the 2.8.0 Beta-1 release. Please note, that
2.8.0 is a Beta release and is only intended as an early
access product. Please don't use for production development
or over-write your 2.7.1 environment.
Support for Eclipse 3.0 will only be available one
week after the release of Eclipse 3.0 M9. |
