Release notes for JBoss-IDE 1.2.0

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Introduction

This is a minor release. It's supposed to be installed and updated via the Eclipse Install/Update Manager. See Installation Notes.

System Requirements

Installation Notes

Eclipse Install/Update Manager 

  1. Start Eclipse.
  2. Select the Install/Update Perspective via Help > Software Updates > Update Manager or Window > Open Perspective > Install/Update
  3. Select New > Site Bookmark from the context menu of the  Feature Update view. In the dialog fill the name with an unused one and the URL with http://jboss.sourceforge.net/jbosside/updates
  4. When you open the newly created node there is a child node called JBoss-IDE 1.0. By opening this child node you get nodes for all versions of JBoss-IDE belonging to this category. Select the version you want to install and some information about this version is shown in the Preview view. If this version or a higher one is not already installed the Preview view offers you an Install button which you have to click if you want to install this version.
Tips :

Manual Installation

  1. Download org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.0.bin.dist.zip from Sourceforge site.
  2. Unzip the file to the home directory of Eclipse.

New Features

Fixed Bugs

Known Problems

XDoclet Modules

JBoss-IDE file structure

JBoss-IDE 1.2.0 adds following directories to Eclipse.

Disabling

You can disable JBoss-IDE by choosing the installed version in the Install/Update Manager via the Install Configuration view then selecting the Disable button in the Preview view. The JBoss-IDE files don't get removed from disk via this mechanism and you can easily enable JBoss-IDE again.

Uninstalling

  1. Delete all directories listes in the section file structure.
  2. You will need to restart Eclipse for the changes to take effect

Building from source

See the built-howto for JBoss-IDE.