Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project: News

• WTP 2.0.2 available! Posted Feb 28, 2008 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0.2 has been released as part of the Europa Winter Maintenance packages. This release addresses serious defects present in release 2.0 as well as improves upon its stability and performance. Individual zip downloads and all-in-one bundles for frequently used configurations are also available.

• WTP 3.0 M5 Declared! Posted Feb 18, 2008 | Permalink

  WTP 3.0 milestone M5 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now! Please note that the list of pre-reqs has changed slightly, and that they should always be installed first.

• First milestone of XSL Component Declared! Posted Jan 21, 2008 | Permalink

  We are proud to announce the first milestone of the XSL Incubating Component from WTP.

  This feature adds XSL Launch Configurations, XSL Editing and Debugging, and XPath Navigator/Tester to the capabilities of WTP (or, WST). While there's room (and plans!) for improvement, we think everyone who uses XSL will find it useful already in this first milestone ... and certainly worth you trying it out, opening bugs and enhancement requests and getting involved with the effort!

  This is the first milestone of the WTP Incubating Project, which began last Fall. It well demonstrates what a few dedicated volunteers can accomplish at Eclipse, namely Doug Satchwell, David Carver, and Jesper Møller. Great job guys!

  Get started from the WTP Incubator download site

• WTP 3.0 M4 Declared! Posted Jan 07, 2008 | Permalink

  WTP 3.0 milestone M4 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now!

• WTP 3.0 M3 Declared! Posted Nov 15, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 3.0 milestone M3 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now!

• WTP at Eclipse DemoCamps Posted Nov 14, 2007 | Permalink

  Eclipse DemoCamps are great events to showcase and discuss some of the cool and interesting technology being built by the Eclipse community. They're also opportunities to meet other Eclipse enthusiasts and committers in cities around the world. WTP projects and products based on WTP will be presented in Austin, Istanbul, New York, and RTP, with familiar faces from WTP also planning to attend in Toronto. Join us, won't you?

• WTP 3.0 M2 Declared! Posted Oct 03, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 3.0 milestone M2 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now! Thanks go out to all the project teams for their continued work and to our many and varied users. Users of the Web Services Explorer in particular should update from M1 to this milestone as it is once again available.

• WTP 2.0.1 available! Posted Sep 28, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0.1 has been released as part of the Europa Fall Maintenance packages. This release addresses serious defects present in release 2.0 as well as improves upon its stability and performance. Individual zip downloads and all-in-one bundles for frequently used configurations are also available.

• WTP 1.5.5 Available! Posted Aug 31, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 1.5.5 has been released to fix a number of bugs in the 1.5 releases. Those with 1.5.4 or below already installed need only use Update Manager to "find updates for currently installed features".
  

• WTP 3.0 M1 Declared! Posted Aug 24, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 3.0 milestone M1 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now! Thanks go out to all the component teams for their continued hard work, a good number of first-time contributors, and to our many and varied users. Users of the Web Services Explorer should be aware that it is not available in this milestone due to changes in the Eclipse Platform. It is expected to return in M2.

• STAR Workbench adopts Eclipse Web Standard Tools Posted Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink

  Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) will unveil the STAR Workbench at its October General Session meeting. The STAR Workbench will help XML Data Architects, Business Analysts, and Users improve their schema and instances of Business Object Documents.

  The workbench is built on the Eclipse Platform, the Eclipse Web Standard Tools 2.0 plugins (WST) and other open source components.

  See their Press Release for more information.

• New News Feed for Eclipse Web Tools Platform Posted Jul 26, 2007 | Permalink

  The news feed (RSS) for the Web Tools Platform (WTP) project is now
  http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/news/
  
  The new feed supports rich content, such as images and links, as well as permalinks back to the news archive. The old feed at http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/wtpnews.rss will be decommissioned.

• Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 Released! Posted Jun 29, 2007 | Permalink

  Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 is available for immediate download and can also be installed as part of Europa . This major update delivers its key goals of improved quality, adopter readiness, harmony with other Eclipse projects, and many new features for end users.

  Eclipse developers will be particularly pleased with the debut of major features and/or specification updates to EJB3 JPA, JSP 2.0, JSF 1.2, Axis2 Web Services, Tomcat support, and source editing. This release also introduces Java EE 5 project support.

• WTP 2.0 RC4 Declared! Posted Jun 21, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0 RC4 was officially released on 2007-06-21

• WTP 2.0 RC3 Declared! Posted Jun 14, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0 RC3 was officially released on 2007-06-14

• WTP 2.0 RC2 Declared! Posted Jun 05, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0 RC2 was officially released on 2007-06-05

• WTP Book Released! Posted Jun 01, 2007 | Permalink

  Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications by Naci Dai, Lawrence Mandel and Arthur Ryman has been released.

  This book presents an in-depth description of all the tools that make up WTP and an introduction to how they can be extended. It also covers Web application architecture and shows you how to set up a development project. It will appeal to Eclipse users, Enterprise Java developers, and companies and developers who reuse Eclipse in their products. Discussion includes many tools that are new to the Eclipse community and provide functionality that has not been present in Eclipse itself. This book will show Eclipse users and developers how to use and extend the new tools and incorporate them into their own products.

  Find out more at the book web site http://www.eclipsewtp.org.

• WTP 2.0 RC1 Declared! Posted May 25, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0 RC1 was officially released on 2007-05-25

• WTP 2.0 RC0 Declared! Posted May 18, 2007 | Permalink

  The WTP 2.0 RC0 Milestone has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy Thanks go out to all the teams and to our users for their continued hard work.

• WTP 1.5.4 Declared! Posted May 03, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 1.5.4 has been released to fix a number of bugs in the 1.5 releases. Those with 1.5.3 or below already installed need only use Update Manager to "find updates for currently installed features".
  All-in-one zip files, SDKs, and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site.

• WTP at JavaOne 2007 Posted May 03, 2007 | Permalink

  Session TS-9782 will present the lastest Java EE and Web tooling from two WTP subprojects, the ATF and JSF projects. The session is titled "Ajax and JavaServer Faces Technology Tooling in Eclipse" and will be delivered by Cameron Bateman (Oracle) and Phillipe Ombredanne (nexB and EasyEclipse). This is a must-see session for open source fans, with an emphasis on demonstration.

• Don't miss these cool WTP webinars on Eclipse live Posted May 03, 2007 | Permalink

  Catch the replay of today's webinar by Kathy Chan (IBM) and Andrew Mak (IBM) to get a good Introduction to Web Services Tools in WTP. This webinar will introduce you to the web services tools that are available in Eclipse's Web Tools Platform. These tools will help you develop and test your own web services, or you can discover and play with web services that are published on the Internet and build your applications to interact with these services. Concepts such as SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and various interoperability and development standards will be touched on. The webinar will include highlights on Axis2 web service tools which are new to WTP 2.0.

• WTP 2.0 M6 Declared! Posted Apr 06, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0 milestone M6 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy Thanks go out to all the teams and to our users for their continued hard work.

• WTP 2.0 M5 Declared! Posted Feb 23, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 2.0 milestone M5 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy Thanks go out to all the teams for their hard work testing and fixing bugs.

• WTP 1.5.3 Released! Posted Feb 16, 2007 | Permalink

  WTP 1.5.3 has been released to fix serious bugs that were found too late to fix in the previous release . Those with a previous 1.5 releases already installed need only use Update Manager to "find updates for currently installed features". New users of Eclipse 3.2 can also obtain it by choosing to "Search for new features to install" within the Update Manager and selecting the Callisto Discovery Site. Manual downloads are also available from the download site as well as from member companies .

• Reminder: EclipseCon short talks and demo proposals due January 31st Posted Jan 09, 2007 | Permalink

  Short talks and demos are a great way to get the word out about what you're doing, and preparation is easy.

• The Development Power of Open Source AJAX Tooling Article Published Posted Dec 20, 2006 | Permalink

  The Development Power of Open Source AJAX Tooling article by Kevin Sawicki published on Java Developer's Journal .

• Valentin Baciu elected as WTP committer Posted Dec 20, 2006 | Permalink

  Congratulations to our newest committer, Valentin Baciu from IBM. Valentin is part of the XML Web services team.

• Consuming Web Services Using Eclipse Web Tools Posted Nov 27, 2006 | Permalink

  Consuming Web Services Using Eclipse Web Tools article by Christopher Judd published in Eclipse Review .

• WTP 1.5.2 Released! Posted Oct 31, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP 1.5.2 has been released to fix serious bugs and performance problems that were found too late to fix in the previous maintenance release. Those with 1.5.1 already installed need only use Update Manager to "find updates for currently installed features".
  All-in-one zip files, SDKs, and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site.

• Java Web Application Development with Eclipse published on Safari Rough Cuts Posted Oct 13, 2006 | Permalink

  
  Java Web Application Development with Eclipse, the latest book in the Eclipse series, by Naci Dai, Lawrence Mandel, and Arthur Ryman is now available in rough form from Safari Rough Cuts.

• HTTP Connection Tracer diagnosic utility posted Posted Oct 03, 2006 | Permalink

  Having trouble with network connectivity in Eclipse/WTP? Try the new HTTP connection tracer diagnostic utility.

• WTP 1.5.1 Released as part of Callisto update pack Posted Sep 29, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP 1.5.1 was released as part of the fall Callisto maintenance release. WTP Zips and all-in-one bundles for frequently downloaded configurations are also available.

• EclipseWorld 2006 Presentations Available Posted Sep 07, 2006 | Permalink

  EclipseWorld 2006 is currently underway in Cambridge, MA, with plenty of WTP content. Check out the WTP Presentation Archive for EclipseWorld 2006 material, including programming examples. Presenters are invited to post their material to the WTP archive by attaching files to bug 126597.

• WTP Website Owner and Website Developers Needed Posted Aug 08, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP is looking for people willing to help maintain and enhance our website, including:

  • Converting the look and feel to Phoenix
  • Improving organization, information accessibility, and readability
  • Adding additional user information, including tutorials, getting started documents, and similar
  • Providing additional information about planning, committers, ongoing projects, and other WTP activities
  • Improving accessibility and cross-browser support
  If you're interested in helping or leading this effort, please comment on bug 153085 or e-mail the WTP dev list - wtp-dev@eclipse.org.

• Sybase Contributes Graphical Page Designer to WTP Posted Aug 08, 2006 | Permalink

  Sybase has contributed a graphical page designer for HTML, JSP and JSF pages to WTP. The initial contribution can be download from bug 152533 .

• Bob Goodman elected as WTP committer Posted Aug 08, 2006 | Permalink

  Congratulations to our newest committer, Bob Goodman from IBM. Bob is the new ATF project lead and will work closely with the WTP PMC to align ATF with WTP.

• WTP voted top Eclipse project by Eclipse Magazine Posted Jul 12, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP has been recognized with the Eclipse Magazine Reader's Choice 2006 award for best Eclipse top level project. Congratulations to all the WTP committers and contributors!

• WTP 1.5 Released! Posted Jun 30, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP 1.5 is now available. You can read about the release and find out how to get it here .

• Cameron Bateman elected as WTP committer Posted Jun 27, 2006 | Permalink

  Congratulations to our newest committer, Cameron Bateman from Oracle. Cameron Bateman is a prolific contributor to the JSF Tools project. He is the author of the JSF 1.1 EL validation functionality and contributed the Design-time Application Manager Framework as part of implementing the above functionality. He has also raised and fixed numerous issues in the JSF Tools Project.

• WTP 1.5 RC6 Declared! Posted Jun 23, 2006 | Permalink

• Peter Moogk elected as WTP committer Posted Jun 20, 2006 | Permalink

  Congratulations to our newest committer, Peter Moogk from IBM. Peter built the Environment Command Framework, was instrumental in the convergance of the Web service and J2EE tools teams' wizard frameworks and is responsible for the internet proxy page.

• WTP 1.5 RC5 Declared! Posted Jun 16, 2006 | Permalink

• WTP 1.5 RC4 Declared! Posted May 31, 2006 | Permalink

• Developing and Profiling Web Services Webinar Posted May 26, 2006 | Permalink

  Join the WTP/TPTP Eclipse webinar on June 12 from 11:00am-12:00pmET. Click here to register.

• WTP 1.5 RC3 Declared! Posted May 18, 2006 | Permalink

• Bringing Together Eclipse, WTP, Struts, and Hibernate Article Published Posted May 10, 2006 | Permalink

  Bringing Together Eclipse, WTP, Struts, and Hibernate article by Boris Minkin published on Java Developer's Journal .

• WTP 1.5 RC2 Declared! Posted May 05, 2006 | Permalink

• WTP 1.0.2 Released! Posted Apr 27, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP 1.0.2 is now available! Information about the release is available on the WTP 1.0.2 release page .

• WTP 1.5 RC1a Declared! Posted Apr 21, 2006 | Permalink

• Creating Database Web Applications with Eclipse Article Published Posted Apr 10, 2006 | Permalink

  Creating Database Web Applications with Eclipse article by Stephen Schaub published on Eclipse Corner .

• Develop Web Applications FASTER with WTP Article Published Posted Mar 27, 2006 | Permalink

  Develop Web Applications FASTER with WTP article by Tim Wagner published in Eclipse Review .

• ATF Initial Contribution Available for Evaluation Posted Mar 21, 2006 | Permalink

  The source code for the initial IBM contribution to the AJAX Toolkit Framework incubator has been posted to bug 132238 by project lead Craig Becker. Potential contributors are encouraged to download and evaluate this code now. Users can download a binary version that runs on WTP 1.0.1 from alphaWorks where demos are also available.

• WTP Project Sprint - Mon. Mar. 20, 6:30-8:30pm Posted Mar 19, 2006 | Permalink

  Join the WTP team at EclipseCon for the WTP project sprint. Hear first-hand from those leading and developing the project about WTP's achievements during the past year and direction for the upcoming 1.5 release.
  Monday, March 20, 6:30-8:30pm, EclipseCon, Room 203.

• WTP Logo Unveiled Posted Mar 16, 2006 | Permalink

  
  WTP has a new look in a new logo. Thanks to Artur Filipiak for creating and contributing the new WTP logo.

• WTP 1.0.1 Released! Posted Feb 28, 2006 | Permalink

  WTP 1.0.1 is now available! Information about the release is available on the WTP 1.0.1 release page .

• Developing Web Services Eclipse Web Tools Project Article Published Posted Feb 21, 2006 | Permalink

  Developing Web Services Eclipse Web Tools Project article by Boris Minkin published on Java Developer's Journal .

• Eclipse WTP User Experience Study Announced Posted Feb 21, 2006 | Permalink

  In partnership with IBM, the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia is running a study to improve the Eclipse IDE user experience. Help improve the WTP user experience by participating in the study .

• EclipseCon Web Tools Track Announced Posted Feb 20, 2006 | Permalink

  
  The Web Tools Track has been announced for EclipseCon 2006. The track includes talks and tutorials about WTP and related to Web development.

• Eclipse TPTP Strengthens Integration with BIRT and WTP Posted Feb 08, 2006 | Permalink

  Eclipse TPTP Strengthens Integration with BIRT and WTP. Read the press release here .

• Authoring with Eclipse Article Published on Eclipse Corner Posted Jan 31, 2006 | Permalink

  Authoring with Eclipse article by Chris Aniszczyk and Lawrence Mandel published on Eclipse Corner . This article features WTP's XML tools.

• WTP Logo Contest Posted Dec 22, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP's logo (the default screen seen on the WTP home page) is in need of an update. Announcing the WTP logo contest! Submit your logos for WTP and comment and vote on existing submissions on bug 122593 . Submission deadline is Jan. 31. Voting deadline is Feb. 16.

• WTP 1.0 Release Posted Dec 22, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP 1.0 is now available. You can read about the release and find out how to get it here .

• WTP 1.0 Release Posted Dec 19, 2005 | Permalink

  The release of WTP 1.0 is planned for 2005-12-23. You can read about the release and get early access to it here .

• WTP 1.0 Featured on InfoWorld Posted Dec 19, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP 1.0 is featured on InfoWorld! Read the article here .

• WTP 1.0 Featured on Business Wire Posted Dec 19, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP 1.0 is featured on Business Wire! Read the article here .

• WTP 1.0 Featured on eWeek Posted Dec 19, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP 1.0 is featured on eWeek! Read the article here .

• Build rich Internet applications tutorial Published on developerWorks Posted Dec 15, 2005 | Permalink

  Build rich Internet applications tutorial by Christopher Judd published on developerWorks .

• WTP 1.0 RC5 available for download Posted Dec 15, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 1.0 RC4 available for download Posted Dec 11, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 1.0 RC3 available for download Posted Dec 10, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 1.0 RC2 available for download Posted Dec 08, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 1.0 RC1 available for download Posted Dec 01, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 1.0 M9 available for download Posted Nov 22, 2005 | Permalink

• Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project Article Published on Java Developer's Journal Posted Nov 21, 2005 | Permalink

  Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project article by Boris Minkin published on Java Developer's Journal .

• John Lanuti and Amy Wu elected as WTP committers Posted Nov 16, 2005 | Permalink

  Congratulations to our newest committers, John Lanuti and Amy Wu , both from IBM. John already works on many aspects of WTP including the EJB bean and servlet wizards, flexible component API, and server API. Amy is also very involved in WTP working on new file wizard templates and the configuration extension points, moving WTP editors to the "hyperlink" API, opening and fixing many, many bugs, and responding to questions on the newsgroup.

• Persisting EMF models with WTP Published on Eclipse Corner Posted Oct 11, 2005 | Permalink

  Persisting EMF models with WTP article by Daniel Rohe published on Eclipse Corner .

• Overview of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Published on dev2dev Posted Oct 05, 2005 | Permalink

  Overview of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform article by Tim Wagner, Ted Bashor, Paul Meijer, and Pieter Humphrey published on dev2dev .

• Eclipse Web Tools Article Published on OnJava.com Posted Oct 05, 2005 | Permalink

  Eclipse Web Tools article by Jeffrey Liu and Lawrence Mandel published on O'Reilly OnJava.com .

• WTP 1.0 M8 available for download Posted Sep 22, 2005 | Permalink

• Posted Sep 10, 2005 | Permalink

  Building a CMP Based School Schedule Web Application tutorial posted.

• Posted Sep 05, 2005 | Permalink

  Building Web Applications with Eclipse, WTP, and Derby article by Susan L. Cline published on developerWorks .

• Posted Aug 25, 2005 | Permalink

  The JavaServer Faces Tools Project has been created!. The Creation Review was held today and the project was approved. The project will incubate during the WTP 1.0 development cycle and then become a component of the JST subproject in WTP 1.5.

• Posted Aug 09, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP 0.7 can now be installed from the Eclipse.org update site

• The WTP 0.7 release is available for download Posted Jul 28, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 0.7RC5 is now available Posted Jul 27, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 0.7RC4 is now available Posted Jul 26, 2005 | Permalink

• Posted Jul 24, 2005 | Permalink

  Check out the recent articles featuring WTP in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Java Developer Journal.

• Posted Jul 24, 2005 | Permalink

  Congratulations to our newest committer, Dirk le Roux , Versant! Dirk is working on the Data Tools components of WTP and has contributed support for MySQL.

• WTP 0.7RC3 is available for download. RC3 is built with the new JEM 1.1 release making all of the dependencies Release builds. Posted Jul 24, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 0.7RC2 is available for download. Posted Jul 21, 2005 | Permalink

• WTP 0.7RC1 is available for download. RC1 contains UI polish and important bug fixes. Posted Jul 14, 2005 | Permalink

• Posted Jun 30, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP Milestone M5 is available for download. M5 updates WTP to work with the Eclipse 3.1 release and contains numerous enhancements and bug fixes .

• Posted Jun 28, 2005 | Permalink

  Two new committers were recently elected to WTP. Larry Isaacs , SAS, is contributing to the Tomcat server support and Susan Yeshin , IBM, is writing the online Help. Congratulations Larry and Susan!

• Posted May 31, 2005 | Permalink

  The WTP project is hosting a series of component open houses . These open houses are aimed at those looking to extend the platform provided by the WTP project.

• Posted May 15, 2005 | Permalink

  The WTP contributors page has been expanded and revamped. Now all contributors get their own page. If you currently have a page, please review it for accuracy and completeness. If someone you know deserves to be recognized for their contributions, send a note nominating them to their component lead or a PMC member.

• Posted May 08, 2005 | Permalink

  
  Apache Geronimo server adapter available for M4!. Now you can use WTP 1.0 M4 to develop Web applications for Apache Geronimo.

• Posted Apr 29, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP Milestone M4 available for download! M4 updates WTP to work with Eclipse 3.1M6 and contains numerous enhancements and bug fixes.

• Posted Apr 10, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP Presentation Archive created. This page lists WTP presentations that you can use when you talk about WTP. Contribute your own WTP presentations too.

• Posted Feb 25, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP Milestone M3 available for download! M3 contains Web services and ejb tools, and flexible project layouts.

• Posted Feb 22, 2005 | Permalink

  Six new Web service tutorials posted on the community page .

• Posted Feb 21, 2005 | Permalink

  
  BEA Joins Eclipse Foundation as a Board Member and Strategic Developer; Elected as Lead for Web Tools Platform Project. Read the complete press release here .

• Posted Feb 21, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP Roadmap posted. This document outlines the plan for WTP 1.0, WTP 1.1, and beyond.

• Posted Feb 20, 2005 | Permalink

  Developing the WTP with Eclipse tutorial posted. This tutorial provides an introduction to WTP plug-in development using Eclipse.

• Posted Feb 14, 2005 | Permalink

  Help Wanted page posted. If you would like to contribute to the project, read this page to find work items.

• Posted Feb 07, 2005 | Permalink

  Eclipse API Scanner posted. Learn how to describe the API of a component and scan plug-ins for API violations.

• Posted Jan 23, 2005 | Permalink

  
  The WTP team is presenting three technical sessions, a tutorial, and a project sprint at EclipseCon . This is a great opportunity to meet the people and learn about the project. Feb 28th-Mar 1st.

• Posted Jan 23, 2005 | Permalink

  Building a Student Schedule Web Application tutorial posted.

• Posted Jan 23, 2005 | Permalink

  XML Schema Editor demo viewlet posted.

• Posted Jan 23, 2005 | Permalink

  WTP site updated!

• Posted Dec 22, 2004 | Permalink

  Milestone M2 available for download.