http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ This RSS feed contains the latest news from the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project. The Eclipse WTP project contains Web tools and frameworks for the Eclipse platform. en-us Copyright (c) 2001, 2007 IBM Corporation and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html Contributors: IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:59:22-07:00Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project: NewsMon, 30 Jul 2007 21:00:00 UTC The news feed at http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/wtpnews.rss is no longer in use. The new RSS feed for the Web Tools Platform (WTP) project is now http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/news/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:00:00 UTC 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. Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:00:00 UTC is available for immediate and can also be installed as part of . 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. Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:15:00 UTC WTP 2.0 RC4 was officially released on 2007-06-21 and is available for download now. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:55:00 UTC WTP 2.0 RC3 was officially released on 2007-06-14 and is available for download now. Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:16:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/2.0RC2/main.php WTP 2.0 RC2 was officially released on 2007-06-05 and is available for download now. The update site bits will follow with the Europa RC2 release tommorrow. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipsewtp.org by , and 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 . Fri, 25 May 2007 09:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/2.0RC1/main.php WTP 2.0 RC1 was officially released on 2007-05-25 and is available for download now. The Europa update site will be ready shortly. Thanks everyone. Fri, 18 May 2007 10:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/2.0RC0/main.php The WTP 2.0 RC0 Milestone has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now! Thanks go out to all the teams and to our users for their continued hard work. Thu, 3 May 2007 21:00:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R1.5/R-1.5.4-200705021353/ 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. Thu, 3 May 2007 21:00:00 UTChttp://www28.cplan.com/cc158/session_details.jsp?isid=285782&ilocation_id=158-1&ilanguage=english 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. Thu, 3 May 2007 21:00:00 UTChttps://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a300965365/p75296135/ 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. Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:30:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/2.0M6/ WTP 2.0 milestone M6 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now! Thanks go out to all the teams and to our users for their continued hard work. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:14:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/news/2.0M5/ WTP 2.0 milestone M5 has been declared. Check out what's New and Noteworthy and download it now! Thanks go out to all the teams for their hard work testing and fixing bugs. Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:00:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R1.5/R-1.5.3-200702082048/ 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 . Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipsecon.org Short talks and demos are a great way to get the word out about what you're doing, and preparation is easy. Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:00:00 UTChttp://java.sys-con.com/read/313546.htm The Development Power of Open Source AJAX Tooling article by Kevin Sawicki published on Java Developer's Journal . Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:00:00 UTC Congratulations to our newest committer, Valentin Baciu from IBM. Valentin is part of the XML Web services team. Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipsereview.com/issues/eclipsereview_200612.pdf Consuming Web Services Using Eclipse Web Tools article by Christopher Judd published in Eclipse Review . Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:00:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R1.5/R-1.5.2-200610261841/ 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. Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:50:00 UTChttp://my.safaribooksonline.com/0321396855 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. Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:50:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/development/httptracerutility/index.html Having trouble with network connectivity in Eclipse/WTP? Try the new HTTP connection tracer diagnostic utility. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:30:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R1.5/R-1.5.1-200609230508/ 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. Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:30:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/presentations.html 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. Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:00:00 UTChttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153085 WTP is looking for people willing to help maintain and enhance our website, including: 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. Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:00:00 UTChttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=152533 Sybase has contributed a graphical page designer for HTML, JSP and JSF pages to WTP. The initial contribution can be download from bug 152533 . Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:00:00 UTC 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. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:15:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse-magazin.de/umfrage/em/rc_2006/index.xhtml 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! Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:30:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/1.5/ WTP 1.5 is now available. You can read about the release and find out how to get it here . Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:50:00 UTC 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. Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:44:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/drops/S-1.5RC6-200606230444/ WTP 1.5 RC6 is available for download . It will likely be the final release candidate. Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:20:00 UTC 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. Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:50:00 UTChttp://download2.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/S-1.5RC5-200606161055/ WTP 1.5 RC5 is available for download ! Wed, 31 May 2006 16:50:00 UTChttp://download2.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/S-1.5RC4-200605310507/ WTP 1.5 RC4 is available for download ! Fri, 26 May 2006 16:50:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/callisto/webinars.php Join the WTP/TPTP Eclipse webinar on June 12 from 11:00am-12:00pmET. Click here to register. Thu, 18 May 2006 16:50:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/S-1.5RC3-200605182217/ WTP 1.5 RC3 is available for download ! Wed, 10 May 2006 19:51:00 UTChttp://java.sys-con.com/read/216320.htm Bringing Together Eclipse, WTP, Struts, and Hibernate article by Boris Minkin published on Java Developer's Journal . Fri, 5 May 2006 18:36:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/S-1.5RC2-200605051426/ WTP 1.5 RC2 is available for download ! Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:32:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/1.0.2/ WTP 1.0.2 is now available! Information about the release is available on the WTP 1.0.2 release page . Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:53:00 UTChttp://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/S-1.5RC1a-200604210753/ WTP 1.5 RC1a is available for download ! Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:35:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-EclipseDbWebapps/article.html Creating Database Web Applications with Eclipse article by Stephen Schaub published on Eclipse Corner . Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipsereview.com/issues/eclipsereview_200603.pdf?page=25 Develop Web Applications FASTER with WTP article by Tim Wagner published in Eclipse Review . Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:00:00 UTChttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=132238 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. Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:20:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ 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. Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:41:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ WTP has a new look in a new logo. Thanks to Artur Filipiak for creating and contributing the new WTP logo. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:15:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/1.0.1/ WTP 1.0.1 is now available! Information about the release is available on the WTP 1.0.1 release page . Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:00:00 UTChttp://java.sys-con.com/read/180402.htm Developing Web Services Eclipse Web Tools Project article by Boris Minkin published on Java Developer's Journal . Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:00:00 UTChttp://ws.cs.ubc.ca/~lkf/antoine/ 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 . Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:28:00 UTChttp://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?id=338 The Web Tools Track has been announced for EclipseCon 2006. The track includes talks and tutorials about WTP and related to Web development. Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/tptp/groups/Marketing/pressroom/pressreleases/BIRT%20and%20WTP.htm Eclipse TPTP Strengthens Integration with BIRT and WTP. Read the press release here . Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:19:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Authoring-With-Eclipse/AuthoringWithEclipse.html Authoring with Eclipse article by Chris Aniszczyk and Lawrence Mandel published on Eclipse Corner . This article features WTP's XML tools. Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/wtplogocontest.php 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. Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/1.0/ WTP 1.0 is now available. You can read about the release and find out how to get it here . Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/releases/1.0/ 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 . Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.infoworld.com/article/05/12/19/HNeclipsewebtools_1.html WTP 1.0 is featured on InfoWorld! Read the article here . Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051219005407&newsLang=en WTP 1.0 is featured on Business Wire! Read the article here . Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1903446,00.asp WTP 1.0 is featured on eWeek! Read the article here . Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-laszlo-i.html Build rich Internet applications tutorial by Christopher Judd published on developerWorks . Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0 RC5 is available for download ! Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0 RC4 is available for download ! Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0 RC3 is available for download ! Fri, 9 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0 RC2 is available for download ! Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0 RC1 is available for download ! Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0 M9 is available for download ! A description of New and Noteworthy features can be found here . Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://java.sys-con.com/read/152270.htm Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project article by Boris Minkin published on Java Developer's Journal . Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:00:00 UTC 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. Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-WTP-Persisting-EMF/persisting.html Persisting EMF models with WTP article by Daniel Rohe published on Eclipse Corner . Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/09/eclipse_web_tools_platform.html Overview of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform article by Tim Wagner, Ted Bashor, Paul Meijer, and Pieter Humphrey published on dev2dev . Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:00:00 UTChttp://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/10/05/eclipse-web-tools.html Eclipse Web Tools article by Jeffrey Liu and Lawrence Mandel published on O'Reilly OnJava.com . Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 UTC WTP 1.0M8 is available for download ! A description of New and Noteworthy features can be found here .