Bonjour Comment Java?

Finally the GlassFish Tools bundle for Eclipse has been released: version 1.0 is available at http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse

The Tools bundle contains:

Eclipse 3.4.2 IDE with WTP Java EE support GlassFish v2.1 pre-registered and configured GlassFish v3 Prelude pre-registered and configured JavaDB sample database pre-registered and configured GlassFish Plugins GlassFish documentation And optionally, a JDK 1.6.

Installers are available for Windows and MacOSX, and tar.gz for Linux systems.
If you have used a preview release (pre version 1.0), make sure to read the release notes  http://download.java.net/glassfish/eclipse/releasenotes.html for information about a known issue regarding reusing workspaces created with preview releases. Commercial support for this bundle is also available at http://developers.sun.com/services/buying_guide.jsp.

I like the fact that the GlassFish servers are preconfigured, ready to use, even with a sample Java DB database pre registered (to use the JPA entities tooling). By default the "Deploy On Save" feature is enabled for GlassFish v3 Prelude: it means that the moment you save a Servlet, a utility class, or even an EJB, the application is automatically updated and redeployed to the running server in an optimal way. If you want to play with leading edge bits for GlassFish v3 Java EE 6, you can even register and download from the bundle a promoted build (happens every week) of the latest GlassFish v3 server. We will demo more about that at the JavaOne conference.

We are now working on a version 1.1 (and nightly builds will be available next week. Version 1.1 will add the OpenSolaris 2009.05 target, an optimized installer with Pack200 technology to reduce the download size by almost 2!, the JAX-WS and JAX-RS Jersey RestFul GlassFish Plugins, Maven 2, a MySQL JDBC driver pre registered for better out of the box experience with the MySQL database, the entire Java EE 6 Javadoc available in the Eclipse Editor code completion, and of course the latest bug fixes.

I hope to see you at JavaOne 2009.
Ludo