The Eclipse Foundation has released Ganymede, the latest annual release this time containing 23 Eclipse projects including the Eclipse IDE version 3.4.
This latest version of the annual Eclipse release contains many new features including:
  • Equinox P2 - a system to make installations and updated to Eclipse easier
  • JSDT - A new JavaScript editor
  • Improved JavaScript support for the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools, BIRT
  • Graphical database query tools
  • Improved support for Java EE 5
  • SOA support
and many other features.
Further information, inclusing webinars and demos can be found on the project website .
This new release can be downloaded from the Eclipse web site .
 
Max Andersen has today announced the release of JBoss Tools 2.1.0.GA.
"JBoss Tools is a set of plugins that enhances and adds support in Eclipse for JBoss.org projects and related technologies such as JBoss AS, Hibernate, JPA, Seam, jBPM, JSF and more."
Since release 2.0, many changes have been made including performance improvements (e.g. approximately 30x speed improvement on Seam Tools startup), usability fixes and bug fixes. The complete change log can be found here.
This release is a drop in upgrade from previous versions, however all users are recommended to try this version.
The tools can be downloaded from SourceForge .