JBoss Developer Studio is a development environment created and currently developed by JBoss

JBoss

JBoss Application Server is an open-source Java EE-based application server. An important distinction for this class of software is that it not only implements a server that runs on Java, but it actually implements the Java EE part of Java...

 (a division of Red Hat) and Exadel.

It integrates and certifies both tooling and runtime components by combining Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is part of the JBoss Enterprise...

.

The built-in development tools are used to build rich Web applications using open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 technologies like JBoss Seam

JBoss Seam

Seam is a web application framework developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat.- Seam 3 :Seam 3 is very active project consisting of over 50 developers and engineers, which provides a modular set of extensions to the CDI programming model...

, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate

Hibernate (Java)

Hibernate is an object-relational mapping library for the Java language, providing a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database...

 and JBoss jBPM.

JBoss Developer Studio is constantly updated to include the latest releases of Eclipse and Web Tools Project (WTP) and provides tools for JEE

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier...

 and web development, like:

• Java EE, JSF
  JavaServer Faces
  JavaServer Faces is a Java-based Web application framework intended to simplify development integration of web-based user interfaces....
  
   and JSP
  JavaServer Pages
  JavaServer Pages is a Java technology that helps software developers serve dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types...
  
   tools
• JPA
  Java Persistence API
  The Java Persistence API, sometimes referred to as JPA, is a Java programming language framework managing relational data in applications using Java Platform, Standard Edition and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition....
  
   tools
• Server tools
• Web services and WSDL
  Web Services Description Language
  The Web Services Description Language is an XML-based language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a Web service. A WSDL description of a web service provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects and what data structures...
  
   tools
• HTML
  HTML
  HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
  
  , CSS
  CSS
  -Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
  
  , and JavaScript
  JavaScript
  JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
  
   tools
• XML
  XML
  Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
  
  , XML Schema and DTD
  Document Type Definition
  Document Type Definition is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML-family markup languages...
  
   tools

JBoss Developer Studio includes one entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...

, with built-in development tools, and Red Hat Network Access for development purposes.
JBoss Developer Studio is available for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 10.4x

Mac OS X v10.4

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Tiger was released to the public on 29 April 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X Panther , which had been released 18 months earlier...

. JBDS 3.0 comes integrated with JBoss EAP 5.0 that requires JDK

Java Development Kit

The Java Development Kit is an Oracle Corporation product aimed at Java developers. Since the introduction of Java, it has been by far the most widely used Java SDK. On 17 November 2006, Sun announced that it would be released under the GNU General Public License , thus making it free software...

 6.0 to run.

JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools

JBoss Tools is a non-commercial project of JBoss Developer Studio. It is a set of Eclipse based plugins for JBoss related technology such as Seam, Hibernate/JPA, JSF, EJB3, JBossESB, JBossWS, Portal etc.

JBoss Tools

JBoss Tools

JBoss Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins and features designed to help JBoss and J2EE developers develop applications. It is an umbrella project for the JBoss developed plugins that will make it into JBoss Developer Studio.-Modules:...

 are a set of Eclipse plugins to which JBoss Developer Studio adds:

• an installer
• Eclipse and Web Tools preconfigured
• JBoss EAP with JBoss AS and Seam preconfigured
• 3rd party plugins bundled and configured
• access to RHEL and Red Hat Network
  Red Hat Network
  Red Hat Network is a family of systems management services operated by Red Hat that makes updates, patches, and bug fixes of packages included within Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux available to subscribers...
  
  
• access to the JBoss/Red Hat supported software

History

In March 2007, Exadel and Red Hat

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....

 announced a strategic partnership that added Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture

Service-oriented architecture

In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

 (SOA) and Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat's integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. By January 2010, version 3.0.0.CR1 was released.

JBoss Developer Studio Releases:

5 October 2007 - 1.0.0.CR1

10 December 2007 - 1.0.0.GA

8 May 2008 - 1.1.0.CR1

2 June 2008 - 1.1.0.GA

31 October 2008 - 2.0.0.beta

7 January 2009 - 2.0.0.cr1

29 January 2009 - 2.0.0.cr2

17 March 2009 - 2.0.0.GA

28 September 2009 - 2.1 Portfolio Edition

15 December 2009 - 2.1.1

15 December 2009 - 3.0.0.M4

7 January 2010 - 3.0.0.CR1

Features

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. JBoss Developer Studio includes and integrates JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss SOA Platform and JBoss Portal Platform, the same version of the middleware platform that Red Hat supports in production for 5 years.

New JBoss Seam Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes brand new tools for Seam. They provide wizards for creating new Seam projects, validation tools, expression language code completion, testing tools, and wizards for generating entity objects.

Business Process Modeling Tools. JBoss Developer Studio provides a powerful business process designer tool create workflow processes. It also offers ability to managing workflow processes as well as human tasks and interactions between them. It includes the ability to convert BPMN to JPDL.

Business Rule Management Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes support for the most widely used Business Rules engine in the market, Drools. It offers graphical tools to create, edit and manage business rules, rule resources and decision tables.

SOA tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes rich set of tools to develop and deploy SOA based integration applications. It includes the ability to create, configure and deploy integration applications.

Data Transformation Tools - Smooks. Smooks transformation tools help transforming data from one format to another format. Multiple formats are supported for both source type and result type. Supported formats are CSV, EDI, XML, Java, JSON etc.

Portal Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes tools to create and deploy portlets that are compatible with JSR 186/286. It also includes tools to easily create SEAM/JSF Portlets and deploy the same on JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform.

Visual Page Editor. JBoss Developer Studio includes a Visual Page Editor for combined visual and source editing of Web pages. The Visual Page Editor even renders AJAX-enabled RichFaces components.

AJAX Capabilities. JBoss Developer Studio includes a Technology Preview of JBoss RichFaces. RichFaces provides nearly 70 skinnable components, including calendar, tree, dropdown menu, drag-and-drop components, and more. JBoss Developer Studio’s Visual Page Editor can render RichFaces components.

JBoss Tools Palette. The JBoss Tools Palette contains a developer’s project tag libraries and enables inserting tags into a JSP with one click. The Tools Palette supports custom and 3rd party tags.

Hibernate Tools. Hibernate Tools provide robust, visual tools for the industry standard Hibernate object-relational-mapping framework. Hibernate Tools includes capabilities like reverse engineering and code generation from existing databases, Hibernate mapping and configuration editors, entity model views, dynamic query editors, and more.

JBoss jBPM Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes jBPM tooling for defining Seam page flows.

Spring Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes Spring IDE for developing Spring applications.

Struts Tools. JBoss Developer Studio includes Struts tools for Struts 1.x applications.

Optimized JBoss Application Server adapter. JBoss Developer Studio’s advanced JBoss AS adapter includes features like incremental deployment for fast development and is pre-configured for the included JBoss Application server.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHN Access. JBoss Developer Studio includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux development tools, and Red Hat Network for development purposes.

Business Intelligence Report Tool (BIRT). JBoss Developer Studio includes Business Intelligence Report Tool, a reporting system that integrates with Java/J2EE, extracts certain information, analyzes it, and generates report summaries and charts.

JBossWeb Service. JBoss WS is a web service framework developed as a part of the JBoss Application Server. It implements the JAX-WS specification that defines a programming model and run-time architecture for implementing web services in Java, targeted at the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5).

Teiid. JBoss Developer Studio includes Teiid, a data virtualization

Data virtualization

Data virtualization describes the process of abstracting disparate data sources through a single data access layer ....

system that allows applications to use a uniform API to access data from multiple, heterogeneous data stores, handling relational, XML, XQuery and procedural queries. Teiid provides connectivity to most relational databases, web services, text files, and ldap to access and integrate data across distributed data sources without copying or otherwise moving data from its system of record.

Documentation

• JBoss Developer Studio Reference guides and Tutorials on www.jboss.com
• Eclipse documentation

Forums and blogs

• JBoss Developer Studio Users forum
• In Relation To blog
• What's new in JBoss Developer Studio