The JBoss Eclipse IDE Team is happy to announce the final release of JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5!
A few quick links:
JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 Online Installation Guidehttp://docs.jboss.com/jbosside/install/build/en/html/index.html JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 Online Tutorialhttp://docs.jboss.com/jbosside/tutorial/build/en/html/index.html
The new features since 1.4.1 are too many to count, We suggest you take a look at the changelogs and release notes for all the previous milestones and release candidates to get a feel, but here is a high-level overview:
Overall Project Changes Hibernate Tools - Reverse engineer existing DB schemas to Hibernate and EJB3 POJO, hbm.xml, HTML docs, JBoss Seam components, DAO, etc
- Interactively query your DB with HQL/EJBQL3
- Advanced hbm.xml and cfg.xml editors with auto-complete
- DB Model visualization
- Externalized reverse engineering through ant
- Automated wizard for cfg.xml with DB driver auto-complete
jBPM Designer - Visually design your business process with automated PAR generation
- Swimlane support
- jBPM Classpath Container including jBPM 3.0.2
JBossAOP Developer - Visual annotations for when a method or field will be intercepted by an Interceptor or Advice
- Pointcut Wizard for previewing the methods and fields that will be matched by your pointcut
- JBossAOP builder to remove the 2nd step AOP compilation process
- JBossAOP application launcher
JBoss EJB3 Tools - EJB3 Classpath container based on your JBoss installation
- Wizards for EJB3 Session and Message-driven beans
- EJB3 Project wizard
JBossIDE Core - A First Run wizard that will guide you through converting your 1.4 projects to 1.5
- Upgrade of xdoclet libraries to be compatible with Java5
- .xdoclet/.packaging -> xdoclet/packaging-build.xml process is now handled by a builder
- Webtools 1.0 integration has replaced our HTML/XML/JSP editors