Yesterday saw the
release of Eclipse 3.6 - Helios by the Eclipse Foundation.
Each year in June, Eclipse releases a simultaneous release of a large number of projects - this year 39 projects are part of the release which includes more than 33 million lines of code.
To celebrate the release of Helios, members of the Eclipse community have been
blogging about the new features in the release and revewing how the software works.
Today, June 24th, the Eclipse Foundation is presenting the
Helios in Action Virtual Conference.
"On June 24, the Eclipse Foundation is presenting Helios In Action - a virtual conference where you can interact with project leads involved in the release and see demos of the new features. The annual simultaneous release has now grown to 39 projects with over 33 million lines of code, contributed by committers around the world. With such a large global community, Eclipse wants to bring Helios to you!"
The Virtual conference is free (
registration is required), and includes sessions on:
- Linux Tools
- Eclipse Runtime
- Eclipse Git Team Provider
- JavaScript Development Tools
- Java EE Standards Support From Web Tools
- Marketplace Client and p2 Discovery Connector
- Modelling
- EMF On The Web
- Mylin
- 10 Reasons to Install Helios
Eclipse Helios can be downloaded from
here.
Earlier this week, Jay Balunas
announced the release of JBoss RichFaces 4.0.0 Alpha 2. RichFaces is a JSF component library that provides over 100 AJAX aware components for JSF developers. RichFaces allows for easy skinning of components and development of components via its Component Development Kit (CDK).
This new release contains many new components and features, the highlights of which are:
- Redesigned and improved Component Development Kit
- Ajax core components set almost completely migrated.
- Ajax request smart Queuing mechanism implemented
- Rich Data Iteration components created
- Skinning including standard control skinning feature was migrated.
RichFaces 4.0.0 Alpha 2 can be downloaded from the project's
download page. The next release (Milestone 1) is expected around the middle of July.
NetBeans 6.9 has today been released and is available to download from
http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html.
Six different NetBeans bundles are available catering for different types of developers. These bundles are available for Java SE, Java FX, Java, Ruby, C/C++ and PHP developers. Each of these download bundles contains different "packs" of NetBeans functionality (for example Java ME is supported in the Java bundle), however different packs, or functionality, can be downloaded and enabled via the IDE's plugin system.
NetBeans 6.9 includes new functionality not present in previous versions. As is common with NetBeans releases, this contains support for some of the newer APIs and toolkit available to the Java developer. The NetBeans team have provided an
overview of NetBeans 6.9 screencast and describe the main new features as:
"NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for building JavaFX GUI applications. Additional highlights include OSGi interoperability for NetBeans Platform applications and support for developing OSGi bundles with Maven; support for JavaFX SDK 1.3, PHP Zend framework, and Ruby on Rails 3.0; as well as improvements to the Java Editor, Java Debugger, and many more."
Many more
screencasts are available showing some of the new functionality in NetBeans 6.9 such as using the JavaFX composer or how NetBeans helps PHP and Ruby developers.
NetBeans 6.9 has undergone a large amount of
community testing and has recently been
accepted by the community as stable for release. Congratulations to the NetBeans team and the members of the community that helped test the product to ensure it is stable for release.
