Genuitec has announced the release of the commercial MyEclipse 6.0, offering advanced features and integration for Spring and Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) development. This Eclipse plugin set allows users to create entity managers and transaction manager beans, generate entities and DOA and much more through the cross-capabilities bridge created by MyEclipse.

MyEclipse 6.0 includes the following enhancements over previous releases:

    * Platform and Installation Support
          o Eclipse 3.3/Europa 1.0 compatible
          o Java 5 & Java 6 support
          o Windows (XP, Vista), Linux, Mac
    * Java EE 5 & Spring Feature Improvements
          o EJB3 improved project flexibility, bean generation from DB schema
          o JPA
                + Project actions to generate Entities and DAOs from DB schema
                + Automatically maintains entity classes in persistence.xml
                + Improved JPA project capabilities configuration
                + Improved documentation and examples
          o Spring 2.0 upgrade with enhanced configuration and management
          o Hibernate upgrade
          o Advanced Spring-JPA Integration
                + JPA-Spring project configuration creates:
                      # Spring EntityManagerFactory and JpaTransactionManager beans
                      # annotation-driven configuration
                + JPA Entity and DAO generated by reverse engineering from DB schema
                + Updated documentation and examples
    * AJAX Development & Testing
          o Apple Macintosh Support – all AJAX features now on Mac
          o Improved AJAX Web Browser
          o Improved AJAX Tools
                + DOM Inspector – added filter/search support
                + DOM Source view – real-time status and dynamic source editing
                + Improved JavaScript Console
                + New DOM Watcher View
                + New CSS Viewer
                + New JavaScript View
                + New DOM Compare View
          o Enhanced JavaScript Debugging
                + JavaScript Scripts Inspector - added support dynamic resource types
                + Suspend On conditions: (debugger keyword, exceptions, errors, startup)
                + Launch configurations now support project files and URLs
                + Launch configurations can be saved in projects
    * RAD Web Development
          o Struts – 1.3 support with full libraries/configuration
          o Facelets
                + Extended JSF Designer to support the <ui:repeat tag=""> for editing content-assist and validation.
    * Matisse4MyEclipse Visual Swing Designer
          o Matisse4MyEclipse Visual Swing Designer can now be installed in any Eclipse 3.3 instance without the full MyEclipse IDE Core. Get the most popular and advanced Swing Designer for Eclipse in a light-weight plugin footprint.
    * Rapid Java EE Deployment and Testing
          o Automated project deployment and launch services
                + Debug On MyEclipse Server & Run On MyEclipse Server
                      # Automatically deploys project and launches server in specified debug or run modes
                      # Automatically stops a running server before deployment
                      # Automatically redeploys an existing application deployment
          o Sun Glassfish V2 new deployment/reloads
          o MyEclipse Tomcat 6 Server – local integration, launches in one second
          o MyEclipse Derby Server
                + Automatically launch server on JDBC connection
                + Configurable startup options
    * MyEclipse Learning Center (Help & Educational Material)
          o Integrated example Java EE source code projects repository
          o One-Click install of MyEclipse Java EE example projects