Mar 12
Red Hat Developer Studio is an Eclipse-based development environment that is available entirely in open source. It provies visual and source-oriented development tools for developing JSF, Struts, Hibernate, Seam, MyFaces, Oracle ADF, Shale, and Spring.
Adding on, JBoss Ajax4jsf and JBoss RichFaces will also be built in to to add AJAX to their JSF applications without having to write any JavaScript.
source : http://www.methegeek.com
Tags: eclipse, java
Feb 03
Ever tried opening up the plugins folder of Eclipse 3.1 or greater? What is the difference between the previous versions and the current ones? Just look at the screenshots.
Equinox is an Eclipse project to structure Eclipse software not just as a collection of plugins, but as a collection of OSGi bundles. OSGi bundles is an approach to break an application into components (jar files), large collections of classes with a unified interface that is well-encapsulated and easily reusable amongst multiple applications.
Most important part : OSGi also enables applications to dynamically load (and better yet, unload as well) these components at runtime as optional functionality is needed (and no longer needed). Meaning your SQL Plugins or XML Plugins actually do not get loaded during startup. They are runtime loads. God… my head rolls.
This helps the application manage its footprint, e.g. the memory that it consumes in order to run. Rather than using memory to load every option that any user may ever need, it only loads the kernel functionality and then loads optional functionality when the user asks for it by loading OSGi bundles.
Equinox helps formalize an approach to developing Eclipse applications as these OSGi bundles.
A particularly interesting part of Equinox is the Server Side OSGi (sub?) project. OSGi has mostly been used to create desktop applications. This enables you to start the application quickly with a small footprint and then load options as needed. What if you could do the same in a server application? The application starts quickly, then as client apps invoke optional functionality, the app dynamically loads components to provide the functionality. Interesting idea, so check it out at http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/server/ (project under development)
Tags: eclipse, equinox, java
