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JBoss Developer Studio
Original author(s)	JBoss, a division of Red Hat
Stable release	1.1.0.CR1 / May 7, 2008
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Software development
License	GPL
Website	www.jboss.com

JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) is a certified open source development environment created and currently developed by JBoss (a division of Red Hat) and 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.

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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, Exadel, the leader in providing rich application components for creating a new generation of enterprise solutions, and 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 - Exadel Studio Pro and Richfaces - at JBoss.org as JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss RichFaces. More information

JBoss Developer Studio Releases:

10/Dec/07 - 1.0.0.GA
08/May/08 - 1.1.0.CR1
02/Jun/08 - 1.1.0.GA
2.0.0.alpha – in progress

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 www.jboss.com
The latest versions of documents on www.jboss.org

Forums and Blogs

JBoss Developer Studio Users forum
In Relation To blog
What's new in JBoss Developer Studio

References

JBoss Developer Studio project on jira.jboss.com
Introducing JBoss Developer Studio 1.0
Exadel Partnership Press Release
JBoss partners
Exadel and JBoss Partnership
Facing New Models
Red Hat partners with Exadel
JBoss Tools Movies
Eclipse documentation