Genuitec has announced the availability of the updated Matisse4MyEclipse, a professional integration and enhancement of the of the NetBeans 6 GUI Designer for Swing (formerly known as Project Matisse).
Matisse4MyEclipse provides the most intuitive and advanced Swing GUI design solution to the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench and is available to MyEclipse Professional Edition users at no charge via the "Community Essentials" program. Additionally, the enhancement is available to non-users of MyEclipse as a standalone Eclipse plugin via the Eclipse update manager or, more easily, via Genuitec's free "Pulse" product.
"Our users have long appreciated the fact that MyEclipse offers both outstanding Eclipse features, but also showcases one of NetBeans' most popular features in the Matisse GUI Designer," said Wayne Parrott, vice president of development for Genuitec in a public statement. "We're pleased to be able to provide the latest and greatest features from the NetBeans 6 GUI Designer, and look forward to further enhancing Matisse4MyEclipse uniquely for the Eclipse platform."
The Matisse4MyEclipse update gives users access to the latest functionality and upgrades in Matisse. A limited list includes enhanced support for:
Visual Swing UI Designer - WYSIWYG dragand-drop layout of Swing user interfaces
Directly integrates with the MyEclipse world-class Java editor and development and debugging tools
Extensible component palette enables you to add third party UI controls and your own components
Supports the new beans binding technology (JSR 295)
Uses NetBeans Swing metadata form files for interchange with NetBeans 6
Runs with Java SE 5 & 6
Numerous bug fixes
Windows and Linux support
Enabled for future support of the Swing Application Framework and JPA database binding (JSR 296)