Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

I'm pleased to announce that Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download for both Windows and Linux. This release fixes a number of bugs we found during the betas and also adds some polish and features, like Xul Runner and a new "mini"JMX console.

You can download Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 Release Candidate 1 from http://www.redhat.com/developers/rhds/

Please try it out and provide feedback at http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=258

We're in the home stretch now!

Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Now Available

I'm pleased to announce the release of our second Beta for Red Hat Developer Studio. We've fixed a number of bugs and also added many new features, including:

• Seam hot deploy for WARs
• Integrated TestNG so that generated Seam projects are automatically setup to be tested
• New Seam Generate Entities Wizard
• New Seam wizards for all the Seam component generation options from seam-gen (Seam Action, Form, Entity, Conversation)
• And more!

You can download Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 Beta 2 from http://www.redhat.com/developers/rhds/

Please try it out and provide feedback at http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=258

Getting Networking on Fedora 7 Working after Suspend/Resume

After recently updating my Fedora 7 installation, I was pleasantly surprised to find that suspend/resume now works on my ThinkPad T60. However, there was one problem: after resuming out of suspend, NetworkManager wouldn't see any of my network devices and thus couldn't connect to any network.

To fix this, I hacked my system to stop NetworkManager upon suspend and then start NetworkManger on resume. You can do this by editing the file

/usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux
(/usr/lib64/... on x86_64 machines)

Edit the section that reads:

#RedHat/Fedora and SUSE support pm-utils
elif [ -f "/etc/redhat-release" ] || [ -f "/etc/fedora-release" ] \
|| [ -f "/etc/SuSE-release" ] ; then
# TODO: fix pm-suspend to take a --wakeup-alarm argument
if [ $seconds_to_sleep != "0" ] ; then
alarm_not_supported
fi
# TODO: fixup pm-suspend to define erroc code (see alarm above) and throw
#    the appropriate exception
if [ -x "/usr/sbin/pm-suspend" ] ; then
           #stop network manager
           service NetworkManager stop
/usr/sbin/pm-suspend $QUIRKS
RET=$?
else
# TODO: add support
unsupported
fi

by adding the red commands. This stops NetworkManager at suspend.

Then, at the bottom of the file, edit the text:

#Refresh devices as a resume can do funny things
for type in button battery ac_adapter
do
devices=`hal-find-by-capability --capability $type`
for device in $devices
do
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \
   $device org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Rescan
done
done

#start NetworkManager
service NetworkManager start

exit $RET

by adding the text in red.

Now, when you suspend and resume Fedora 7, networking should work!

Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 Beta 1 Now Available

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of Red Hat Developer Studio. This beta release marks the first time that a 100% open source development solution is available that integrates Eclipse, Eclipse plugins, and an entire runtime platform (The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform). So, with Red Hat Developer Studio, you can, out of the box, do things like:

• Generate a new Seam application using new Seam tools and deploy right into a pre-configured JBoss Application Server
• Visually design and code JSF pages using the updated Visual Page Editor, which now supports WYSIWYG editing of rich, AJAX components
• Generate entity beans for Seam applications from your database using Hibernate and visual seam-gen tools
  

You can download the Red Hat Developer Studio beta from http://www.redhat.com/developers/rhds/index.html.

Red Hat Messaging is now at jboss.org

I'm pleased to announce that the open source project, Red Hat Messaging, has now moved to jboss.org: http://labs.jboss.com/rhmessaging/. Red Hat Messaging is an open source project that is building a high performance, reliable distribution of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. We're excited to work on this project as part of the JBoss middleware community. We hope that you'll check out the project, try out the builds, and perhaps get involved in development!

We're also happy to be collaborating with the JBoss Messaging project. You can find out more about how JBoss Messaging and Red Hat Messaging relate by viewing the JBoss Messaging and Red Hat Messaging FAQ.

Eclipse Europa is Available

Today marks the release of Eclipse Europa, the next version of Eclipse's open source framework and components. This is a great achievement by Eclipse and a testament to the power of open source--the on-time, simultaneous, coordinated release of 21 distinct projects is a fantastic feat. Even the largest software companies have trouble releasing a couple products together.

This is why at Red Hat, we are doing all of our development for JBoss Tools in open source at jboss.org. In fact, we are already targeting Eclipse Europa with our plugins. So, if you want to try out all the latest tools for building powerful and rich applications, try downloading Eclipse Europa and then installing the latest JBoss Tools builds! And, of course, you can look forward to Red Hat Developer Studio later this summer, which will certify and integrate all this, along with the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Exadel Plugins Now Available in Open Source at JBoss Tools!

Today marks an important milestone for the upcoming Red Hat Developer Studio product from Red Hat: we have completed open sourcing the former Exadel Studio Pro plugins from the Red Hat/Exadel Partnership that we announced back at EclipseCon in March.

These plugins, along with the former JBoss IDE plugins, and some new ones (e.g. a Seam plugin) are all available at the JBoss Tools project at jboss.org. You can visit the JBoss Tools project to check out the source code and download the latest versions of the plugins. And, of course, we'd welcome your participation in the open source project too.

One of the most exciting aspects of our open sourcing Exadel's plugins at jboss.org is that this marks the first time that developer tools of this caliber have been available in open source. Previously, all the major Eclipse-based tools vendors built their offerings on top of an open source foundation (Eclipse). But, they kept their most desirable features proprietary and sold them to customers. At Red Hat, we believe the best way to help developers is to provide them with a powerful and completely open source set of development tools and platforms.

For developers that want the latest versions of our plugins and like to remain at the tip of our technology, they are welcome to go to JBoss Tools and tailor-assemble their own, ideal development environment. For developers that prefer an integrated, supportable, and stable development environment that offers great technology, Red Hat has a solution too. Later this summer, Red Hat will be introducing a new product around the JBoss Tools project: Red Hat Developer Studio.

Red Hat Developer Studio will provide a subscription that includes and integrates:

• Eclipse 3.3 from the Eclipse Europa release
• Production-ready versions of the plugins from JBoss Tools and elsewhere, all tested and integrated together along with their dependencies into Eclipse
• The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, which includes production-ready versions of JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, and Seam
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  
• Red Hat Network access for updates

Red Hat Developer Studio will provide one installer that sets up your entire development environment: Eclipse, plugins, and JBoss runtime platforms all integrated together. Of course, like all of our products, Red Hat Developer Studio will be 100% open source. And, it will run on a variety of platforms like Linux and Windows.

So, Red Hat will be offering a variety of solutions for developers. The plugins we have just open sourced at JBoss Tools will provide rich capabilities around many of the other projects at jboss.org. And, Red Hat Developer Studio will build upon JBoss Tools to offer a completely integrated and certified open source development environment. Please check out JBoss Tools and let us know what you think!