JBDS

Infobox_Software
name = JBoss


caption = Screenshot of JBDS 1.1.0.GA
name = JBoss Developer Studio
author = JBoss, a division of Red Hat
latest_release_version = 1.1.0.GA
latest_release_date = release date|2008|06|02
genre = Software development
operating_system = Cross-platform
license = GPL
website = [http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio www.jboss.com]

JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) is a certified open source development environment created and currently developed by [http://www.jboss.com/ JBoss] (a division of [https://www.redhat.com Red Hat] ) and [http://www.exadel.com Exadel, Inc.] .

It integrates and certifies both tooling and runtime components by combining Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

The built-in development tools are used to build rich Web applications using technologies like JBoss Seam, JBoss Application Server and Hibernate.

JBoss Developer Studio is constantly updated to include the latest releases of Eclipse and Web Tools Project (WTP) and provides tools for JEE and web development, like:

* Java EE, JSF, and JSP tools
* JPA tools
* Server tools
* Web services and WSDL tools
* HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tools
* XML, XML Schema and DTD tools

JBoss Developer Studio includes one entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with built-in development tools, and Red Hat Network Access for development purposes.JBoss Developer Studio is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 10.4x. JBoss Developer Studio requires JDK 5.0 to run.

JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools

JBoss Tools is a non-commercial project of JBoss Developer Studio. It is a set of Eclipse based plugins for JBoss related technology such as Seam, Hibernate/JPA, JSF, EJB3, JBossESB, JBossWS, Portal etc.

JBoss Tools are a set of Eclipse plugins to which JBoss Developer Studio adds:

• an installer
• Eclipse and Web Tools preconfigured
• JBoss EAP with JBoss AS and Seam preconfigured
• 3rd party plugins bundled and configured
• access to RHEL and Red Hat Network
• access to the JBoss/Red Hat supported software

History

In March 2007, [http://www.exadel.com Exadel] , the leader in providing rich application components for creating a new generation of enterprise solutions, and [https://www.redhat.com Red Hat] , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced a strategic partnership that added mature, Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture (SOA) and rich, Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat's integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Exadel opened source of its commercial products - [http://exadel.com/web/portal/products/ExadelStudioPro Exadel Studio Pro] and Richfaces - at JBoss.org as JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss RichFaces. [http://www.jboss.com/partners/exadel More information]

JBoss Developer Studio Releases:

10 December 2007 - 1.0.0.GA 8 May 2008 - 1.1.0.CR1 2 June 2008 - 1.1.0.GA 2.0.0.alpha – "in progress"

See also: [http://www.jboss.com/press/exadel_press Exadel Partnership Press Release] [http://blog.hibernate.org/Bloggers/Everyone/Year/2007/Month/03/Day/05#exadeljboss Exadel and JBoss Partnership] [http://www.fnokd.com/2007/03/05/facing-new-models Facing New Models] [http://blogs.jboss.com/blog/slabourey/2007/03/05/Red_Hat_partners_with_Exadel_The_Grand_Unification_is_en_route.txt Red Hat partners with Exadel]

Features

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. JBoss Developer Studio includes and integrates JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, the same version of the middleware platform that Red Hat supports in production for 5 years.

New Seam Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes brand new tools for Seam. They provide wizards for creating new Seam projects, validation tools, expression language code completion, testing tools, and wizards for generating entity objects.

Visual Page Editor. JBoss Developer Studio includes a Visual Page Editor for combined visual and source editing of Web pages. The Visual Page Editor even renders AJAX-enabled RichFaces components.

AJAX Capabilities. JBoss Developer Studio includes a Technology Preview of JBoss RichFaces. RichFaces provides nearly 70 skinnable components, including calendar, tree, dropdown menu, drag-and-drop components, and more. JBoss Developer Studio’s Visual Page Editor can render RichFaces components.

JBoss Tools Palette. The JBoss Tools Palette contains a developer’s project tag libraries and enables inserting tags into a JSP with one click. The Tools Palette supports custom and 3rd party tags.

JBoss jBPM Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes jBPM tooling for defining Seam page flows.

Spring Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes Spring IDE for developing Spring applications.

Struts Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes Struts tools for Struts 1.x applications.

Optimized JBoss Application Server adapter. JBoss Developer Studio’s advanced JBoss AS adapter includes features like incremental deployment for fast development and is pre-configured for the included JBoss Application server.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHN Access. JBoss Developer Studio includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux development tools, and Red Hat Network for development purposes.

Business Intelligence Report Tool (BIRT). JBoss Developer Studio includes Business Intelligence Report Tool, a reporting system that integrates with Java/J2EE, extracts certain information, analyzes it, and generates report summaries and charts.

JBossWeb Service. JBoss WS is a web service framework developed as a part of the JBoss Application Server. It implements the JAX-WS specification that defines a programming model and run-time architecture for implementing web services in Java, targeted at the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5).

Documentation

JBoss Developer Studio Reference guides and Tutorials on [http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio/docs www.jboss.com] The latest versions of documents on [http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/nightly-docs www.jboss.org] [http://docs.jboss.org/tools/movies/ JBoss Tools Movies] [http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/ Eclipse documentation]

Forums and blogs

JBoss Developer Studio Users [http://jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=258 forum] In Relation To [http://in.relation.to blog] What's new in [http://docs.jboss.org/tools/whatsnew/index.html JBoss Developer Studio]

References

[http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBDS JBoss Developer Studio project on jira.jboss.com] [http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/12/10/introducing-jboss-developer-studio-10 Introducing JBoss Developer Studio 1.0] [http://www.jboss.com/press/exadel_press Exadel Partnership Press Release] [http://www.jboss.com/partners/exadel JBoss partners] [http://blog.hibernate.org/Bloggers/Everyone/Year/2007/Month/03/Day/05#exadeljboss Exadel and JBoss Partnership] [http://www.fnokd.com/2007/03/05/facing-new-models Facing New Models] [http://blogs.jboss.com/blog/slabourey/2007/03/05/Red_Hat_partners_with_Exadel_The_Grand_Unification_is_en_route.txt Red Hat partners with Exadel]