MyEclipse 6.5 Blue Edition is a next-generation ALM and open source-friendly IDE for WebSphere. Most WebSphere users will likely be drawn to a few Blue technologies that are not currently supported by RAD such as: Maven4MyEclipse (a professional implementation of Maven2), popular open source mainstays such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA, the Matisse Swing GUI Designer and more. In 6.5, users will also have the ability to run multiple WebSphere server instances, migrate WSAD/RAD projects to MyEclipse Blue Edition and enjoy WebSphere 6.0 portal server support. These advanced features offer organizations maximum flexibility to manage the entire application life-cycle with the infrastructure they already have.
One of many user-requested features for MyEclipse included in 6.5 Blue Edition, Maven4MyEclipse is a “1-Click,” ready-to-run implementation of the Maven2 project management and build service for MyEclipse. Since RAD does not currently support Maven and other OSS technologies such as Spring and Hibernate, WebSphere developers approached Genuitec to offer them in MyEclipse Blue Edition, and we're more than happy to oblige.
“We're very pleased to be able to offer WebSphere developers more depth in their use of MyEclipse Blue from an ALM perspective,” said Wayne Parrott, vice president of product development for Genuitec in a press statement. “In particular, Maven4MyEclipse and WebSphere Portal support will provide intuitive ways for companies to manage a project's build and maintain the entire project's life cycle in ways RAD does not currently support on its own.”
Overall notable enhancements to this release include: JSR 168 Portlets support, addition of Maven 2 support for Web, EJB and Java Projects, advanced deployment modes for J2EE/JEE projects, WAS-compatible Web Service support and the latest Java EE 5 development tools for the WebSphere Application Server 6.1 with the EJB3, Web Services and Web 2.0 feature packs. As mentioned, updates to MyEclipse Spring Tools, Hibernate Tools are included, along with updates to MyEclipse's JSF/Facelets support.
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