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JBoss Developer Studio comes with everything pre-bundled in its installer. Simply download it and install it like this:

If you have JBoss Developer Studio 8.0.0.GA already installed, just run:

JBoss Tools or JBoss Developer Studio Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE) requires a bit more:

This release requires at least Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) but we recommend using the Eclipse Luna SR2 Java EE Bundle since then you get most of the dependencies preinstalled with Java EE Bundle and SR2 release includes some critical fixes.

Once you have installed Eclipse, you can either find us on Eclipse Marketplace under "JBoss Tools (Luna)" or "JBoss Developer Studio (Luna)".

For JBoss Tools you can also use our update site directly if you are up for it.

This release is update for Eclipse Luna and also includes some new features which we would like to highlight. You can see everything in the What’s New section for this release.

This version of JBoss Tools targets Eclipse Luna SR2. More stability. Less false positive JavaScript errors. And many other fixed bugs.

JBoss Developer Studio also includes an important feature patch for Eclipse Web Tools 3.6.3. That patch fixes Eclipse freezes for some JavaScript files.

If you are a FeedHenry user we’ve now added support for easy importing and running of your FeedHenry Cordova applications.

WildFly 8.2.0.GA archetypes are now available for the HTML5, JavaEE Web & EAR project wizards. They will be automatically enabled when you select a WildFly runtime in the project wizards.

For JBoss 7 and Wildfly installations, using hostnames with an IPv6 format often failed to connect, show webpages, or even verify the server’s state. Several changes have made this work as expected. With updated wildfly jars, management commands will execute without issue. In addition, our tools will now automatically recognize host names in an IPv6 pattern, and update your launch configuration’s various launch arguments to ensure that the server starts properly and with all expected flags set.

The Forge 2 runtime was upgraded to 2.15.2.Final. See the full release notes here.

There is also an improvement in Forge wizards which now render notes below the inputs (where available):

HTML validation in Eclipse Web Tools Luna has an annoying issue with custom HTML5 tags. It warns about any HTML tag name that is not mentioned in the HTML specification. We contributed a patch to Eclipse Mars which allows to disable those warnings for any particular tag name (or a tag name mask, e.g. <ion-*>). Though this was fixed in Eclipse Mars only we back ported this useful feature to JBoss Tools 4.2.3 which is based on Eclipse Luna SR2:

JavaSript file validation now respects ECMA5 keywords.

Tern.java and AngularJS Eclipse (available via JBoss Central - Early Access) has been upgraded to 0.8.2 version.

There is a bunch of new features which were introduced in 0.8.0 releases:

0.8.2 releases also include bug fixes for some critical issues which caused Eclipse to freeze.

On Linux Visual Page Editor can be opened in HTML5 mode for HTML files, where all HTML5 features are supported. Visual Page editor mode can be changed with dialog, which appears during HTML file opening or in Visual Page Editor Preferences.

Currently JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio have some problems with supporting both HTML5 Visual Preview and JSF Visual Editor. It’s related to the outdated XULRunner which is used in JBoss Tools to provide visual editing feature for JSF pages. It has very limited HTML5 support and conflicts with other browsers which may be used for HTML5 preview. It’s time now to deprecate the visual part of XHTML and JSP Page editor. JBoss Developer Studio 8.1 and JBoss Tools 4.2.3 still include JSF Visual Editor but it will be removed in future releases.

This deprecation is only about the visual part of the XHTML/JSP Editor (Visual/Source and Preview tabs). The existing content assist, code navigation, wizards etc. related to JSF will still be present in the source editor.

We are now focusing on JBoss Developer Studio 9 and JBoss Tools 4.3 for Eclipse Mars. Alpha1 is already available and we are working on upcoming Alpha2.

Enjoy!

Alexey Kazakov

The Docker Explorer provides a wizard to establish a new connection to a Docker daemon. This wizard can detect default settings if the user’s machine runs Docker natively or in a VM using Boot2Docker. Both Unix sockets on Linux machines and the REST API on other OSes are detected and supported. The wizard also allows remote connections using custom settings.

The Docker Explorer itself is a tree view that handles multiple connections and provides users with quick overview of the existing images and containers.

Built-in filters can show/hide intermediate and 'dangling' images as well as stopped containers.

The Docker Images view lists all images in the Docker host selected in the Docker Explorer view. This view allows user to manage images, including:

A wizard lets the user input all the arguments to create a new container from an image. When the container is started, all the logs can be streamed into the Eclipse Console:

The Docker Containers view lets the user manage her containers. The view toolbar provides commands to start, stop, pause, unpause, display the logs and kill containers.

This view also provides a filter to show/hide stopped containers. Users can also attach an Eclipse console to a running Docker container to follow the logs and use the STDIN to interact with it.

We also integrate with the Eclipse Properties view to provide users with info and 'inspect' data about a selected container or image.

Roland Grunberg and Jeff Johnston from Red Hat started this project and are currently in the process of getting the code accepted to Eclipse.org as part of the Linux Tools project (even if the tooling also runs on other platforms), which explains why the code has not been made public yet.

Taking about code, we rely on the open source Docker client developed by Spotify to handle the low-level communication with the Docker daemons and I should thank the Spotify developers who maintain this library. They’ve been very kind to quickly review and merge the pull requests that we’ve submitted and it’s been a pleasure to contribute to their project. Open source collaboration FTW :-)

There is still some work and the screenshots showed above may still evolve as we add more features, but we hope that this blog entry will give you a taste of what’s coming soon in Eclipse with regards to Docker tooling.

While the code will be hosted in Linux Tools project at Eclipse.org, we intend to also ship it as part of JBoss Developer Studio 9 and JBoss Tools 4.3 later this year.

We also created a JIRA component to track this work-in-progress in the scope of JBoss Tools, including some issues with mockups.

Beyond this basic Docker tooling we are looking at integrating launching servers and even native CDT builds on docker containers, but this will be the subject of future posts on this blog ;-)

As usual, feel free to provide us with feedback on our forum, on JIRA or on IRC. Questions, comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Stay tuned!

/Xavier
@xcoulon