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MyEclipse 6.0 Offers Help for the Java Weary


New version adds extensive Web tooling, new features for enterprise debugging and testing

By Alex Handy
September 6, 2007 — 
Genuitec's MyEclipse 6.0 is all about the developer. Now based on Eclipse 3.3, the new version of this integrated Eclipse distribution includes a database and Tomcat 6.0, so that developers can deploy their application for on-desktop testing with just a few clicks. Elsewhere in this update are expanded Swing support, new AJAX debugging tools and access to a repository of sample code.

Wayne Parrott, vice president of product development at Genuitec, explained that this edition of MyEclipse addresses some of the issues that he first decided to tackle five years ago. “We were just discontent[ed] with the state of Java enterprise development tools. We always had the idea that someday, when we get the big stick, we're gonna change the way things work.”

Now that MyEclipse is that big stick, Parrott and his co-workers have finally been able to put to rest some of the big bugaboos of Java EE development, and first on his list was the difficulty of testing and deploying Java EE applications. To solve this problem, MyEclipse includes Tomcat and the Derby database, preconfigured for easy launching from within the IDE.

“This gives you a Ruby-type experience. You don't have to redeploy your application. You can deploy your application to Tomcat and this database, then spin it up and it runs. It's one-click application launching,” said Parrott.

For Web developers, MyEclipse 6.0 offers similar time economies when AJAX debugging. Version 6.0 includes a new AJAX DOM (Document Object Model) inspector and an improved test browser. Thus, developers building AJAX-based applications can test them out inside MyEclipse, or view third-party Web pages and sniff around their code. Parrott claimed that this will not only help to ease Web development for Java programmers, but will also aid them in finding ideas and samples to help their coding.

As for the rest of Java, Genuitec is now offering one-click access to an online repository of Java sample code. Parrott said that when new Java frameworks and technologies arrive, it could be daunting to have to read massive books and integrate that knowledge into daily work. Rather, he added, it's easier to start with code snippets showing how the new technologies work, and then move the skills gleaned there into one’s own applications. To this end, Genuitec plans to maintain this sample code database by adding up-to-the-minute samples for emerging technologies.

MyEclipse 6.0 standard edition costs US$29.95 per year, per seat. The professional edition, which costs $49.95 per user per year, includes UML and architectural tooling features as well.


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