JBoss Fuse Tooling plus an updated Teiid Designer and Early Access versions of the Fuse SAP Tool Suite, Fuse Data Transformation tooling and SwitchYard (Luna/JBoss Developer Studio 8).
What’s an Integration Stack?
The Integration Stack for JBoss Tools Developer Studio is a set of plugins for Eclipse that provides integration tooling for the following frameworks.
JBoss Fuse Development
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Fuse Tooling - Tools related to integrating and developing software components that work with Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ and Camel - support for Fuse.
| The Fuse Development tooling category has both released and early access components. Consequently, you will see it in both the release installation dialog and the early access installation dialog. |
JBoss Business Process and Rules Development
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BPEL Designer - Orchestrating your business processes.
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BPMN2 Modeler - A graphical modeling tool which allows creation and editing of Business Process Modeling Notation diagrams using graphiti.
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Drools - A Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing.
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jBPM - A flexible Business Process Management (BPM) suite.
JBoss Data Virtualization Development
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Modeshape - A distributed, hierarchical, transactional and consistent data store with support for queries, full-text search, events, versioning, references, and flexible and dynamic schemas. It is very fast, highly available, extremely scalable, and it is 100% open source.
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Teiid Designer - A visual tool that enables rapid, model-driven definition, integration, management and testing of data services without programming using the Teiid runtime framework.
JBoss Integration and SOA Development
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All of the Business Process and Rules Development plugins, plus…
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Fuse Apache Camel Tooling - A graphical tool for integrating software components that works with Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and the FuseSource distributions.
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SwitchYard - A lightweight service delivery framework providing full lifecycle support for developing, deploying, and managing service-oriented applications.
| The SOA Development tooling category has both released and early access components. Consequently, you will see it in both the release install dialog and the early access install dialog. |
What’s Been Updated?
Updates have been made to the Business Process tooling, Fuse Tooling, Data Virtualization and SwitchYard. See the Integration Stack 8.0.2 Release Notes
JBoss Fuse Development Highlights
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New projects can now be given an arbitrary name. Previously, artifactId was used as the project name without the possibility to alter it.
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JMX Navigator has been moved to JBoss Core and reworked. It now contains 3 categories: Local Processes, Server Connections, and User-Defined Connections.
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Camel Debugger has been added. It allows to set, edit and remove breakpoints in the Design view. Camel 2.12 or higher is required for this functionality.
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The Servers view now provides access to JMX when the server is running. Fuse-specific nodes are now also visible in the Servers view.
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New and reworked server adapters have been added for Apache Karaf, Apache ServiceMix, and JBoss Fuse.
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The previous deployment mechanism using hotfolder, JMX node and fabric8 nodes has been replaced by a publishing logic in the Servers view.
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Project running on a server are now automatically redeployed when changed locally.
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The Servers view now shows deployed projects and their bundle state.
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The deploy, redeploy and undeploy operations are now all done in the Servers view.
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Server credentials are now stored in the Eclipse secure storage.
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A new editor palette drawer has been added for the most frequently used Camel components.
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New custom component properties pages have been added.
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Fabric8 tooling is now DEPRECATED and will be removed with the release of Fuse Tooling 8.0.0 (released in sync with JBoss Fuse 7.0.0).
Teiid Designer Highlights
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Just bug fixing this time around! See the Teiid Designer 9.0.2 Release Notes
Early Access/ Technical Preview Tooling Highlights
Fuse Tooling Highlights
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The new SAP Tool Suite enables integration of Camel routes with a remote SAP application server. The suite consists of ten components that support Remote Function Calls (RFC) and transmission of Intermediate Documents (IDocs).
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The new Data Transformation tooling provides a GUI to assist users in implementing data translations as part of Camel routes.
Also see Lars Heinemann’s Blog for more Fuse Tooling insights.
The JBoss Tools website features tab
Don’t miss the Features tab for up to date information on your favorite Integration Stack components.
Installation
The easiest way to install the Integratin Stack components is to install JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack from the Eclipse Marketplace via Help > Eclipse Marketplace…
For a complete set of Integration Stack installation instructions, see Integration Stack Installation Instructions
More to come…
Paul Leacu.
