Posts tagged with 'release'

OpenShift server adapter is a great tool that allows developers to synchronize local changes in the Eclipse workspace with running pods in the OpenShift cluster. It also allows you to remote debug those pods when the server adapter is launched in Debug mode. The supported stacks are Java and NodeJS.

As pods are ephemeral OpenShift resources, the server adapter definition was based on an OpenShift service resource and the pods are then dynamically computed from the service selector.

This has a major drawback as it allows to use this feature only for pods that are part of a service, which may be logical for Web based applications as a route (and thus a service) is required in order to access the application.

So, it is now possible to create a server adapter from the following OpenShift resources:

If a server adapter is created from a pod, it will be created from the associated OpenShift resource, in the preferred order:

As the OpenShift explorer used to display OpenShift resources that were linked to a service, it has been enhanced as well. It now displays resources linked to a deployment config or replication controller. Here is an example of a deployment with no service ie a deployment config:

So, as an OpenShift server adapter can be created from different kind of resources, the kind of associated resource is displayed when creating the OpenShift server adapter:

Once created, the kind of OpenShift resource adapter is also displayed in the Servers view:

This information is also available from the server editor:

While hardly something most users will care about, extenders may need to be aware that the API for adding connection types to the 'New JMX Connection' wizard in the 'JMX Navigator' has changed. Specifically, the 'org.jboss.tools.jmx.ui.providerUI' extension point has been changed. While previously having a child element called 'wizardPage', it now requires a 'wizardFragment'.

A 'wizardFragment' is part of the 'TaskWizard' framework first used in WTP’s ServerTools, which has, for a many years, been used throughout JBossTools. This framework allows wizard workflows where the set of pages to be displayed can change based on what selections are made on previous pages.

This change was made as a direct result of a bug caused by the addition of the Jolokia connection type in which some standard workflows could no longer be completed.

This change only affects adopters and extenders, and should have no noticable change for the user, other than that the below bug has been fixed.

When an application is being deployed to Openshift, it was possible to scale the pod resources from the service resource.

However, it was not a very logical choice. So the command is also available at the pod level, leading to better usability.

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3.4 has been announced by Red Hat. JBossTools 4.4.3 has been validated against OCP 3.4.

A new server adapter has been added to support the next generation of CDK 3. This is Tech Preview in this release as CDK 3 is Beta. While the server adapter itself has limited functionality, it is able to start and stop the CDK virtual machine via its minishift binary. Simply hit Ctrl+3 (Cmd+3 on OSX) and type CDK, that will bring up a command to setup and/or launch the CDK server adapter. You should see the old CDK 2 server adapter along with the new CDK 3 one (labeled Red Hat Container Development Kit 3 (Tech Preview) ).

All you have to do is set the credentials for your Red Hat account and the location of the CDK’s minishift binary file and the type of virtualization hypervisor.

Once you’re finished, a new CDK Server adapter will then be created and visible in the Servers view.

Once the server is started, Docker and OpenShift connections should appear in their respective views, allowing the user to quickly create a new Openshift application and begin developing their AwesomeApp in a highly-replicatable environment.

A number of additions and updates have been performed on the available Hibernate runtime providers.

The included Forge runtime is now 3.5.1.Final. Read the official announcement here.

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3.4 has been announced by Red Hat. JBossTools 4.4.3.AM2 has been validated against OCP 3.4.

If you are using JBossTools together with the Container Development Toolkit (CDK), the latest version is using OCP 3.3 by default. If you are using CDK 2.3, there is a way to upgrade to OCP 3.4. Edit the Vagrantfile, locate the line with IMAGE_TAG="" and replace by IMAGE_TAG="v3.4.1.2-2". then restart the CDK VM (vagrant halt; vagrant up).

Enjoy!

Jeff Maury

When an application is being deployed to Openshift, it was possible to scale the pod resources from the service resource.

However, it was not a very logical choice. So the command is also available at the pod level, leading to better usability.

Enjoy!

Jeff Maury

Now it is possible to debug Node.js applications deployed to Openshift. All you need to do is creating a Server Adapter for the app and running it in the Debug mode. After that a new V8 debug session will be created:

Put some breakpoints in the code and start debugging!

Changing the code during the debug session is also supported - just save the file and new changes will be applied automatically. Here is a short demo video which describes the debugging process in action:

Step by step instructions are available here.

When looking for Openshift resources (builder images, templates), a common namespace is browsed. Earlier hardcoded openshift namespace is now configurable with default value openshift.

It can be accessed and modified through the connection extended properties:

When an application is being deployed to Openshift, a route is optionally created if required by the user. Openshift/CDK used to create an xip.io based hostname. User can now set its own hostname. This allows for both changing the DNS to local IP provider (nip.io) or using you own enterprise DNS naming strategy.

The hostname can be accessed from the Services and Routing Settings page when deploying an application:

When an application is being deployed to Openshift, a route is optionally created if required by the user. It is now possible to target a specific port (exposed by a to be created service). When the ports are being displayed, it is now possible to select one of them to be used by the route. By default, the first port is selected.

The route port can be accessed from the Services and Routing Settings page when deploying an application:

The CDK server adapter now uses a native terminal that allows better interaction with the user. In the case credentials are not passed in the Vagrant environment, the user will be asked just as with the standard Vagrant CLI and in case of registration failures, retries will be performed.

First, make sure your CDK server adapter is configured not to pass credentials:

Then, start the CDK server adapter and a new terminal window will open, asking for registration:

If you answered y to the previous questions, then the terminal window will ask for username:

Then the terminal window will ask for password:

If the registration fails, then the terminal window will perform retries and ask again for username and password:

Runtime detection has been a feature of JBossTools for a long while, however, it would sometimes create runtime and server adapters with configuration errors without alerting the user. Now, the user will have an opportunity to execute quickfixes before completing the creation of their runtimes and servers.

To see this in action, we can first open up the runtime-detection preference page. We can see that our runtime-detection will automatically search three paths for valid runtimes of any type.

Once we click search, the runtime-detection’s search dialog appears, with results it has found. In this case, it has located an EAP 6.4 and an EAP 7.0 installation. However, we can see that both have errors. If we click on the error column for the discovered EAP 7.0, the error is expanded, and we see that we’re missing a valid / compatible JRE. To fix the issue, we should click on this item.

When we click on the problem for EAP 7, the new JRE dialog appears, allowing us to add a compatible JRE. The dialog helpfully informs us of what the restrictions are for this specific runtime. In this case, we’re asked to define a JRE with a minimum version of Java-8.

If we continue along with the process by locating and adding a Java 8 JRE, as shown above, and finish the dialog, we’ll see that all the errors will disappear for both runtimes. In this example, the EAP 6.4 required a JRE of Java 7 or higher. The addition of the Java 8 JRE fixed this issue as well.

Hopefully, this will help users preemptively discover and fix errors before being hit with surprising errors when trying to use the created server adapters.

The WildFly 10.0 Server adapter has been renamed to WildFly 10.x. It has been tested and verified to work for WildFly 10.1 installations.

A number of additions and updates have been performed on the available Hibernate runtime providers.

From Forge 3.3.0.Final onwards it is now possible to query and install addons listed in the Forge addons page.

The included Forge runtime is now 3.3.1.Final. Read the official announcement here.

Freemarker library included in the Freemarker IDE was updated to latest available version 2.3.25.

The new flth and fltx extensions have been added and associated with Freemarker IDE. flth stands for HTML content whereas fltx stands for XML content.

The parser that FreeMarker IDE uses to extract IDE-centric information (needed for syntax highlighting, related tag highlighting, auto-completion, outline view, etc.) was overhauled. Several bugs were fixed, and support for the newer template language features were added. Also, the syntax highlighting is now more detailed inside expressions.

Fixed the issue when the (by default) yellow highlighting of the related FTL tags shift away from under the tag as you type.

The standard "Show whitespace characters" and "Toggle block selection mode" icons are now available when editing a template.

When you type <#, <@, ${, #{ and <#-- the freemarker editor now automatically closes them.

When a FreeMarker exception is printed to the console, the error position in it is a link that navigates to the error. This has worked long ago, but was broken for quite a while.

When hitting enter, sometimes the new line haven’t inherited the indentation of the last line.

Auto completion now knows all directives and "built-ins" up to FreeMarker 2.3.25.

Now it is possible to debug Node.js applications deployed to Openshift. All you need to do is creating a Server Adapter for the app and running it in the Debug mode. After that a new V8 debug session will be created:

Put some breakpoints in the code and start debugging!

Changing the code during the debug session is also supported - just save the file and new changes will be applied automatically. Here is a short demo video which describes the debugging process in action:

Step by step instructions are available here.

The included Forge runtime is now 3.3.3.Final. Read the official announcement here.

Enjoy!

Jeff Maury

Common namespace was added but templates were still loaded from the hardcoded openshift namespace. They are now loaded from the configured common namespace (which still default to openshift)

When an application is being deployed to Openshift, a route is optionally created if required by the user. Openshift/CDK used to create an xip.io based hostname. User can now set its own hostname. This allows for both changing the DNS to local IP provider (nip.io) or using you own enterprise DNS naming strategy.

The hostname can be accessed from the Services and Routing Settings page when deploying an application:

The included Forge runtime is now 3.3.2.Final. Read the official announcement here.

Now it’s possible to bring the Command Selection Dialog menu (invoked when Ctrl/Command + 4 is pressed) by choosing the "Open Command Selection Dialog…​" menu item in the Forge Console view.

Enjoy!

Jeff Maury