Ganymede Release encompasses 23 project teams and 18 million lines of code
OTTAWA, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eclipse Foundation and the entire
Eclipse community are pleased to announce the availability of the Ganymede
Release, the annual release train developed by the Eclipse community. The
Ganymede Release is a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project
teams and represents over 18 million lines of code.
Ganymede delivers improvements and key features in the following areas:
Equinox and Runtime Projects
-- A new provisioning system, called p2, makes it easier for Eclipse
users to install and update Eclipse.
-- Equinox has added two new security features, including 1) a
preferences-like storage for sensitive data such as passwords and login
credentials. The information is encrypted using Java encryption mechanisms;
and 2) the ability to easily use the Java authentication service (JAAS) in
Equinox.
-- RAP 1.1 makes it easier to build great looking, scalable and modular
web applications running on Equinox. New features include 1) the ability to
customize the look & feel with Presentation Factories and CSS; and 2) the
ability to store application state information on a per user basis.
-- The Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) has added real-time shared
editing and other communications features to allow developers to
communicate and collaborate from within Eclipse.
Modeling Features
-- New Ecore tools provide developers with a graphical environment for
creating, editing and maintaining EMF Ecore models.
-- Enhanced Resource APIs in EMF have been added to fully support REST,
including support for the full CRUD life cycle.
Developer Tools
-- A new JavaScript IDE, called JSDT, provides the same level of
support for JavaScript as the JDT provides for Java. Some of the new
features include code completion, quick fix, formatting and validation.
-- BIRT now provides an improved JavaScript editor and a new JavaScript
debugger for debugging report event handlers. In addition, cross tables
have been improved to support multiple measures, display measure values and
totals as text or as charts, provide added support for cross table
scripting and offer better filtering options.
-- DTP has added a new graphical SQL query editor, called the SQL Query
Builder, and improved usability of connection profile creation and
management for users and adopters/extenders.
-- WTP has improved UI support for Java EE 5: new wizards for Servlet
Filters, Application Lifecycle Listeners, Session Beans, Message-Driven
Beans; meta-data descriptor trees in the Project Explorer; and Bundled
Libraries support for EAR projects.
-- Dali Java Persistence Tools has an expanded UI including a new
Persistence.xml editor, new Entity and XML Mapping File wizards and JPA
specific contributions to the Project Explorer. Dali has also improved
configuration and validation with support for mapping with annotations,
XML, or with a combination of annotations and XML.
-- The WTP JSF Tools Project has added features to improve web
application development productivity. The release provides visual editing
support for Apache MyFaces Trinidad components and enables support for
future JSF 2.0 (JSR-314) enhancements such as Facelets.
Support for SOA
-- The new SCA Designer provides a graphical interface for developers
who wish to create composite applications using the SCA 1.0 standard.
-- The Policy Editor is a collection of editors and validators that
makes it easy for developers to construct and manipulate XML expressions
that conform to the WS-Policy W3C standard.
-- The BPMN Editor continues to go from strength to strength and is now
a mature and reliable framework that allows consumers to construct and
extend the BPMN 1.1 standard notation to illustrate business processes.
Availability
The projects in the Ganymede Release are now available for download.
Seven Eclipse Packages have been created to make it easier for developers
to download multiple projects. Please visit http://www.eclipse.org/ganymede
for more information.
Supporting Quotes
"Once again the Eclipse community has delivered our annual release
train and continues to deliver innovative software in a predictable
manner," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse
Foundation. "New features like the Equinox p2 provisioning system, new
modeling tools and tools that support SOA developers will be popular
features for Eclipse users."
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