MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench Release Notes

Release 6.5 GA 
June 17, 2008

1. Overview
2. New Features in MyEclipse 6.5 GA
   
3. Getting Help
   
4. Known Issues
5. Discontinued Features
6. Additional Enhancement / Fix Details for 6.5 GA

1. Overview

MyEcipse 6.5 delivers Java enterprise developers new strategic application lifecycle management (ALM) features. In addition, it includes improvements of MyEclipse's industry leading Java EE tools and 1-click Java application technology repository and runtime.

MyEclipse's new ALM features are founded upon the integration of Maven2 project and build management tools for MyEclipse (Maven4MyEclipse).  Using Maven4MyEclipse developers can now develop Maven versions of MyEclipse Java and Java EE projects. This takes advantage of the full suite of rich MyEclipse application technology frameworks and tools in their MyEclipse Maven projects. Additionally, Maven4MyEclipse allows developers to seamlessly leverage their strategic Maven-based ALM processes from within MyEclipse.

MyEclipse Java EE tools include improved JSF & Facelets visual design and coding, Spring IDE 2.0 for MyEclipse with Spring Web Flow, Hibernate Tools 3.2 for MyEclipse, JSR 168 Portlet development tools, and new web.xml and JSP tag library (TLD) editors. Working through a partnership with ICEsoft, MyEclipse ICEfaces support has been updated to support visual design and deployment of the latest ICEfaces 1.7.0 JSF Ajax component library.

MyEclipse 1-click Java application technology services include a jar library repository of all Java EE and related technologies, e.g., Struts, Hibernate, ... and an custom embedded Tomcat 6 server runtime for rapid testing of Java EE web applications and examples. The repository has been updated to jar libraries for Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3.2, Struts 1.3.8, JSR 168 Portlet API and JAX-WS 2.1. The integrated MyEclipse Tomcat 6 server has been updated with a JAX-WS 2.1 (Metro) runtime as well as a sample security realm for use by a soon to be release set of JAX-WS web services security examples.

2. MyEclipse 6.5 GA Highlights

This section presents an overview of new and improved MyEclipse 6.5 features. To learn more about the many MyEclipse features browse the MyEclipse Learning Center.

• Maven4MyEclipse
  • Maven2 project support is available for
    • MyEclipse Web Projects
    • MyEclipse EJB Projects
    • Java Projects
  • MyEclipse Capabilities Wizards automatically detect and configure Maven jar dependencies
    • includes Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSF, ICEfaces, JPA, Portlets, MyEclipse Reports
  • Maven Dependency Configuration Wizard
  • Execute Maven goals from MyEclipse
  • Automated installation and configuration of local repository
    • includes Sun jars installation
  • Maven Jar Import Wizard
  • Easy JDK configuration
  • Build MyEclipse Maven projects from Maven commandline
    

• Spring IDE 2.0 for MyEclipse Upgrade
  • Custom implementation of Spring IDE 2.0 for MyEclipse
  • Spring Java config support
  • Spring Web Flow 1.0 support with graphical web flow editor
  • New Spring Explorer, Beans Cross References and and AOP Event views
  • Project Explorer view integration
  • AOP analysis and validation
  • Rename refactoring support for bean Ids, properties and classes
  • Mylyn integration
  • Fine grained validation control

• Hibernate Tools 3.3.2 for MyEclipse Upgrade
  • Upgraded to Hibernate Tools 3.2.2CR1
    
  • Hibernate Mapping File Editor (hbm)
    
  • Hibernate 3.2 support for standalone Hibernate Projects
    
  • Hibernate annotations support
  • MyEclipse advanced Spring-Hibernate tools support Hibernate annotation-based projects
    
    • Reverse engineer annotated POJOs from database schema
      
  • Updated HQL and Criteria editors to recognize annotated Hibernate configurations
    
  • Named query validation
  • Java editor content assist support for Hibernate annoations
    
  • Easily test and correct HQL and Criteria queries
    
  • Updated XML catalog with new hibernate-mapping and hibernate-config DTDs (version 3.2.5)
    

• Web Services
  • JAX-WS 2.0 web services framework support
    • Top-down and bottom-up JAX-WS creation wizards
    • Generate JAX-WS client from local or remote WSDL files
    • Test JAX-WS web services using Web Service Explorer
      
  • JAX-WS web security examples to be available via Examples On-Demand
    

• JSR 168 Portlet Support
  • Portlet Project Capabilities Wizard
  • Portlet Creation Wizard using standard templates
  • Enabled for standard web project deployment to JSR 168 portal
  • Use MyEclipse visual web design tools to develop  HTML, JSP, Struts and JSF portlet content

• 1-click Java Application Technology Services
  • Jar Library Repository enhancements
  • Added libraries for: Hibernate 3.2, Spring 2.5, JAX-WS 2.0 Web Services
  • MyEclipse Tomcat 6 Server (6.0.11-custom)
    • Includes JAX-WS 2.1 runtime
    • Example security realm added for upcoming

• Java Server Faces and Facelet Tools
  • Visual JSF Page Designer
  • New code assist and validation for all facelets libraries
    
  • New preview mode renders JSF 
  • faces.xml flow editor
    • New form-based Design mode and configuration wizards
      
    • Managed-bean validation and code-assist
  • ICEfaces 1.7 JSF Ajax UI component library support (use Community Essentials to install this feature)
    
  • JSF Designer Feature Overview document see MyEclipse Learning Center under Help>Help Contents menu
    
    
• MyEclipse UML improvements:
  • Convert class diagram to XSD file
    
    

See New and Noteworthy for more details and screenshots.

3. Getting Help

MyEclipse provides numerous technical support resources:

• MyEclipse FAQs
• MyEclipse Educational Material (Tutorials, Demos, etc.)
  
• MyEclipse Support Forums
  

4. Known Issues

MyEclipse Installer

• Do not install MyEclipse into a folder that has Cyrillic characters in its path. In some cases MyEclipse will not launch correctly. Additionally the MyEclipse installer is not able to display the release notes.
  

Windows Vista Support

• See Matisse4Myclipse below for known issues.

Matisse4MyEclipse Known Issues

• Matisse4MyEclipse is not part of the primary MyEclipse download.  The instructions for downloading and installing Matisse4MyEclipse is provided in the MyEclipse Learning Center found in the Help Infocenter. Launch the Help Info Center (see Help > Help Contents). Then navigate to the help topic at "MyEclipse Learning Center > Swing Development > Getting Started".
  
• The Form Editor rendering of modified custom sub-forms and Java beans is not automatically updated. You must close and reopen the Form Editor for the rendering to be updated and correctly rendered.
• M4ME has not been certified to run on Java SE 6. Therefore if Java 6 is detected the M4ME Form Editor will only operate in experimental mode. The main issue is that it can be difficult to open ctx-menus within the Form Editor.
  

Cross Platform Visual JSP/HTML Designer Known Issues

• Editing XHTML documents does not support code-assist of non-HTML tags.
• Struts and JSF custom tags do not render styleClass attributes in design view.
  
• Empty table cells are initially shown collapsed in design view.
  
• Cut/Copy/Paste of tables not fully supported.
  

AJAX Tools Issues

• Remote scripts loaded from Scripts view that are generated by a Servlet that contains breakpoints, will cause Remote Script to be blank when loaded in editor.
• Visual JSP/HTML Designer-Design View can't be made editable when a JavaScript debugging thread is paused at a breakpoint which is loaded form a http:// based URL.
• The AJAX Web Browser will disabled to all user input when the JavaScript debugger attached to that browser is stopped at a JavaScript Breakpoint. To reenable user-input the JavaScript debug thread will have to be resumed.

MyEclipse on Linux Version Known Issues

• Linux Internal Web Browser Stability
  The Visual HTML Designer on Linux has exhibited rare stability problems on some systems. Until this matter is resolved the WYSIWYG design mode has been restricted to a source-only mode of operation. You can reenable the WYSIYWG design mode for experimental use by including the commandline flag: -D linux.experimental 
• Linux Internal Web Browser Compatibility
  The Visual HTML Designer and AJAX tools on linux can sometimes have an incompatibility with the Eclipse internal web browser.  Please read this document for more information.
• Linux X86_64 Compatibility
  The Visual JSP/HTML Designer and AJAX tools are not available on the 64-bit versions of Eclipse on Linux X86_64.
  
• Flash plugin unavailable in AJAX Browser
  When loading a webpage that contains a flash plugin, you will be prompted to download a plugin.  You must press cancel to continue to use the browser as normal.  Also you will need to resize the window once to fix the blank page because of a painting problem. As a result the MyEclipse AJAX tutorial does not property function in the browser.
  

MyEclipse on Mac OS X Known Issues

• Due to MyEclipse instability issues on the Mac platform the current features are not available: Visual Web Designer, MyEclipse UML and Matisse4MyEclipse. We are working to resolve the instability issues as quickly as possible.
• Application servers and Derby server won't be properly stopped if MyEclipse is shut down using "Quit" from the application menu, Dock or keyboard shortcut. Close all workbench windows for proper shut down. See Eclipse Bug#194146
• The MyEclipse AJAX Tools are available on the Mac platform as experimental features. Use the -Dmac.experimetal=true command line argument to enable this experimental feature set.
  

Hibernate Tools for MyEclipse Known Issues

• Bug #3858, It is possible to use a Hibernate 3.1 DTD that can result in an error on a Hibernate upgrade. To resolve the ambiguity MyEclipse chose to use the Hibernate 3.1 DTDs by default in the Hibernate editors.
  
• Locale specification must include country code When explicitly launching MyEclipse with the "-nl " commandline arguments the locale must include country code, e.g., -nl en_EN or -nl ja_JP.
  Failure to include the locale country code will result in an error when the HQL Editor is launched.

MyEclipse CSS Editor

• If code folding is enable and the properties view is open, typing in the CSS editor can be very slow.  See Eclipse Bug#158877

MyEclipse Tomcat

• MyEclipse Tomcat will work with all Java 5 JDKs, however, if you wish to use a Java 6 JDK to run MyEclipse Tomcat, please use JDK 6 update 4 (1.6.0_04) or above to avoid JAX-WS API compatibility issues.

MyEclipse JPA

• Database VIEWs can not be accessed from the JPA Project>MyEclipse>Generate Entities... ctx-menu action. Instead navigate to the view(s) from the DB Browser and select the Reverse Engineer JPA action

MyEclipse ScreenCapture PRO

• The ScreenCapture PRO facility is only available on Windows XP and 2000. Vista support is planned.
  

5. Discontinued Features

Advanced Notice Of Discontinuation of XFire Web Services Framework and Tools

6. Recent Enhancements and Fixes

Additional details for enhancements and bug fixes for MyEclipse 6.5 GA are identified in the following summary.

New Enhancements in MyEclipse 6.5 GA

Problems fixed since MyEclipse 6.5 M1

v3.x Commercial Release!

• Performance Improvements - We are excited to announce major memory improvements for queries that return large result sets in Editor result sets and the Database Browser Data tab! The memory only increases by a couple of megabytes initially regardless of the size of the result set. Subsequent scrolling of the result set only reads into memory what is needed to display.
• Version Control - Support for Subversion and CVS.
• Editor Enhancements:
  • View scripts in a full size window by using the docking controls to auto-hide or group the Editor panel, Code Navigator, and result sets.
  • Ability to highlight the line in the Editor that caused an execution error. To do this, double-click the error message in the Script Output tab.
  • You can now change the case of text or comment or uncomment a line by selecting Editor | Advanced or from the Editor's right-click menu.
• Data Compare Enhancements:
  • Compare tables and views that have different owners, different names, or different column names.
  • Compare tables that do not have primary keys.
  • Compare specific columns of a table.
  • Change Data Compare project parameters through the Change Data wizard.
  • Connections listed in Data Compare are better integrated with environment in that it now displays connections based on the connections in the Connection Manager.
• Query Builder Enhancements:
  • You can now add a subquery to a From Clause using the Query Builder toolbar or the right-click menu.
  • When you add a Where condition for a column that uses a DateTime data type, a new Date Range tab displays in the Where Condition window. The tag you select is added to the Where condition of your query and when executed, is substituted with a BETWEEN command using the appropriate date range.
• Toad Automation - Graphically create a flow of activities to run or schedule the activities to run at a later time. For example, a single script can run reports, queries, and scripts; save results in Excel spreadsheets and other files; and distribute results to the business community via email or shared file locations. You can also add the automation activities to the Project Manager and double-click them to run them automatically.
• Improved Query Performance - Performance of queries has been increased by up to 10x (based on internal testing). To test this enhancement for yourself, select the Unlimited checkbox beside the Number of rows to initially fetch from a query field under Tools | Options | Database | General.
• Connection Toolbar - Previously, the Connection toolbar was at the bottom of the window and took up an entire toolbar row, regardless of the number of connections. This has been replaced with a new Connection toolbar. The new toolbar is located at the top of the window and lets you switch connections from a a drop-down list. You can also right-click the current connection in the list to select functionality such as disconnect, disconnect all, etc.
• Connections window (previously the New Connections window) - You can now save connection information without having to connect by clicking Save.
• Create, Import, and Export Connections - You can now create a new connection, import connections from a file, or export connections to a file from a toolbar in the Connections window or Connection Manager. Importing and exporting Toad connections is useful for sharing connections within your organization.

• Version Control - Integrates with third-party version control systems down to the database object level.

• Difference Viewer - Easily see differences between any two pieces of text, whether it be two files or two different versions of a database object.

• Update Database - A way to sync up a database to what is in version control, which is useful for migrating changes from one database to another.

• Spotlight on SQL Server Integration - If you see you have an issue with a particular process ID, from the Activity->Processes tab in the Database Browser, you can invoke Spotlight to drill down to that specific process ID to investigate.

• Job Management - Manage your SQL Server jobs across multiple servers in an Outlook-type view.

• Database Browser Server-side Filtering - Ability to do server-side filtering on a per database object type basis as well as supporting named filters.

• Create Like - Ability to clone an existing database object.

• Object Lists - Gives you a way to group objects in the Database Browser across a server instance.

• Project Manager To-Do Items - Lets you keep track of items you still need to get done for the project.

• Edit Duplicate Table Data - View duplicate data rows for tables and delete or edit the rows.

• Web Searching - From within the Toad environment, you can do different types of searches, both Quest-related (Knowledge Expert for SQL Server, Toad Help, etc.) or non-Quest-related (Google, MSDN, etc.).

• One Click Export - Allows you to export data in one click, to HTML, CSV, or Excel formats, as well as bring the data up directly in Excel within the Toad environment.