TOTD #165: Eclipse Indigo, Java EE 6 and GlassFish
- by arungupta
46 millions lines of code
committed by 408 developers from 49 organizations is the recipe for Indigo, the sixth release as
part of the Eclipse annual release
train. The key features of this
release are:
EGit 1.0 enabling Git support
WindowBuilder, a GUI Builder
Jubula for automated functional testing for Java and HTML
EclipseLink 2.3 with support for multi-tenant JPA entities
Equinox 3.7 with OSGi 4.3 specs
Read the complete list of improvements here
and download now!
An updated version of the GlassFish plugin is also pushed to the
update center and can be downloaded by clicking on "Additional Server
Adapters" and selecting GlassFish as shown below:
Couple of much needed improvements in the plugin are:
Configurable "Preserve Sessions across Re-deploys" by
double-clicking on the server properties:
This property could only be configured during server registeration in
earlier versions.
Richer management of GlassFish from within the IDE such as
viewing all the resources (JDBC, Connectors, and JavaMail) as shown
below:
The screencast
#36 shows complete Java EE 6 development using GlassFish and the
video is embedded here for convenience:
This blog has published
multiple
entries on Eclipse and here are some of them:
Eclipse
Con 2011 Hands-on Lab delivered: OSGi, JavaEE, GlassFish, Eclipse a
powerful foursome
Screencast
#38: "Developing OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications using GlassFish"
Tutorial at EclipseCon 2011
Screencast
#36: Web App Development using Java EE 6, GlassFish, and Eclipse -
Webinar Recording
Screencast
#31: Java EE 6 using GlassFish and Eclipse 3.6 - Oracle Enterprise Pack
for Eclipse 11.1.1.6 is now available - 5 new screencasts
TOTD
#127: Embedding GlassFish in an existing OSGi runtime - Eclipse Equinox
TOTD
#126: Creating an OSGi bundles using Eclipse and deploying in GlassFish
