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This is a summary page of all New & Noteworthy for 4.4.1.AM3 and 4.4.1.AM2

What's New in 4.4.1.Final

Docker Tools

Support for Container Labels

Users can now specify labels when running a container. The labels are saved in the launch configuration and can also be edited before relaunching the container.

Container Labels

See issues 498166, 497777, 485913 and 485936 in Eclipse Bugzilla for more details.

Automatically detect known Docker daemon connections

When the Docker Explorer view is opened, the list of existing connections (saved from a previous session) is reloaded. In addition to this behaviour, the view will also attempt to find new connections using default settings such the 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock' Unix socket or the 'DOCKER_HOST', 'DOCKER_CERT_PATH' and 'DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY' environment variables. This means that by default, in a new workspace, if a Docker daemon is reachable using one of those methods, the user does not have to use the "New Connection" wizard to get a connection.

See issue 497101 in Eclipse Bugzilla for more details.

Extension point for Docker daemon connection settings

An extension point has been added to the Docker core plugin to allow for custom connection settings provisionning.

See issue 497100 in Eclipse Bugzilla for more details.

Support for Docker Compose

Support for Docker Compose has finally landed !

Users can select a docker-compose.yml file and start Docker Compose from the context menu, using the Run > Docker Compose launcher shortcut.

The Docker Compose process displays it logs (with support for text coloring based on ANSI escape codes) and provides a stop button to stop the underlying process.

Docker Compose

Also, as with the support for building and running containers, a launch configuration is created after the first call to Docker Compose on the selected docker-compose.yml file.

See issue 479592 in Eclipse Bugzilla for more details.

Docker Image Hierarchy View Improvements

The new Docker Image Hierarchy view not only shows the relationships between images (which is particularly interesting when an image is built using a Dockerfile), but it also includes containers based on the images in the tree view while providing with all relevant commands (in the context menu) for containers and images.

Docker Image Hierarchy View

See issues 499749 and 499750 in Eclipse Bugzilla for more details.


Forge Tools

Added Install addon from the catalog command

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

addon install from catalog

Forge Runtime updated to 3.3.1.Final

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

startup

Freemarker

Improved automatic finishing of FreeMarker constructs

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

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22749

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.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22701

Fixed auto-indentation

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

Related JIRA: JBIDE-20512

Freemarker 2.3.25

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

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22700

flth / fltx file extensions added

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.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22636

Overhaul of the plugin template parser

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.

Related JIRAs: JBIDE-20180, JBIDE-22574, JBIDE-21819

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

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22656

Showing whitespace, block selection mode

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

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22751

Updated the "database" used for auto completion

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

Related JIRAs: JBIDE-20386, JBIDE-22765


Hibernate Tools

Hibernate Runtime Provider Updates

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

New Hibernate 5.2 Runtime Provider

With final releases available in the Hibernate 5.2 stream, the time was right to make available a corresponding Hibernate 5.2 runtime provider. This runtime provider incorporates Hibernate Core version 5.2.2.Final and Hibernate Tools version 5.2.0.Beta1.

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Figure 1. Hibernate 5.2 is available

Other Runtime Provider Updates

The Hibernate 4.3 runtime provider now incorporates Hibernate Core version 4.3.11.Final and Hibernate Tools version 4.3.5.Final.

The Hibernate 5.0 runtime provider now incorporates Hibernate Core version 5.0.10.Final and Hibernate Tools version 5.0.2.Final.

The Hibernate 5.1 runtime provider now incorporates Hibernate Core version 5.1.1.Final and Hibernate Tools version 5.1.0.CR1.


OpenShift

Events can now be displayed

Events generated as part of the application livecycle are now displayed in the property view under the Events tab (available at the project level):

property view event

You can refresh the content of the event with the Refresh command or open the event in the OpenShift web console with the Show In → Web Console command.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22817

Volume claims can now be displayed

Volume claims are now displayed in the property view under the Storage tab (available at the project level):

property view storage1

You can create a new volume claim using a resource file like the following:

{
    "apiVersion": "v1",
    "kind": "PersistentVolumeClaim",
    "metadata": {
        "name": "claim1"
    },
    "spec": {
        "accessModes": [ "ReadWriteOnce" ],
        "resources": {
            "requests": {
                "storage": "1Gi"
            }
        }
    }
}

If you deploy such a resource file with the New → Resource command at the project level, the Storage tab will be updated:

property view storage2

You can access/edit the content of the volume claim with the Edit command or open the volume claim in the OpenShift web console with the Show In → Web Console command.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22433

Server templates can now be displayed / edited

Server templates are now displayed in the property view under the Templates tab:

property view template

You can access/edit the content of the template with the Edit command.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-22457


Server Tools

Support for WildFly 10.1

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.

Related JIRA: JBIDE-23035 - Support WildFly 10.1 - change server adapter name

QuickFixes now available in runtime detection

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Related JIRA: JBIDE-15189 - Add quickfixes to runtime detection


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