Overview: IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse, Version 8.5.5

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse is a lightweight set of tools for developing, assembling, and deploying Java™ EE, OSGi, Web 2.0, and mobile applications to WebSphere Application Server.

When combined with WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty, WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse Version 8.5.5 is designed to provide a fast and lightweight environment for the rapid development and testing of Java EE web profile, Web 2.0, mobile, and OSGi applications.

[8.5.5.9 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.9

Tools are available in this release to support:
  • Generic Service Client 8.7.1

    This update includes enhancements to the Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) security policy, along with the adoption of the Apache CXF framework.

  • IBM SDK Version 8.0 for WebSphere Application Server traditional V8.5
  • Dynamic classpath loading for handling different JAX-RS and JPA specifications
  • MobileFirst 7.1
[8.5.5.8 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.8

The name WebSphere Application Server is changing to WebSphere Application Server traditional, and the name WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile is changing to WebSphere Application Server Liberty.

Tools are available in this release to support:
  • REST API Discovery and Swagger
[8.5.5.7 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.7

Tools are available in this release to support:
  • OSGi subsystems
[8.5.5.6 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.6

Tools are available in this release to support:

  • Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.2
  • Generic Service Client (GSC) 8.7
  • Bean Validation
  • Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) 1.2
  • Java EE Batch Tools
  • Java EE permissions editor
[8.5.5.5 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.5

Tools are available in this release to support:

  • WebSocket 1.1
[8.5.5.4 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.4

Tools are available in this release to support:

  • WebSocket 1.0
  • Servlet 3.1, including packaging as OSGi WABs
  • Liberty Remote Server
[8.5.5.2 or later]

What's new in Version 8.5.5.2

Tools are available in this release to support:

  • Dojo Version 1.9.2 adoption
  • IBM SDK Version 7.1 for WebSphere Application Server

For information about features that were deprecated, removed, stabilized, and superseded in this release, see What has changed in this release .

What's new in Version 8.5.5

Tools are available in this release to support:

  • Developing JAX-WS applications for the WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5.5 Liberty
  • Integrating OSGi bundles with Maven
  • Improved validation of JCDI managed beans
  • Simplified installation by dragging and dropping WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5.5 Liberty
  • Simplified download and installation of extensions for a WebSphere Application Server Liberty
  • The minify include option for packaging and sharing a WebSphere Application Server Liberty runtime environment and configuration
  • Improved support for developing User Features for extending the Liberty server functions
  • Developing CDI applications
  • Developing EJB 3.0 and 3.1 applications for the WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5.5 Liberty
  • Developing User Features for extending the Liberty server functions
  • Integrating with Apache Maven

For information about features that were deprecated, removed, stabilized, and superseded in this release, see What has changed in this release .

Supported programming models

The following table lists the programming models available in IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse and indicates the application servers that they are supported on.
Programming model WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty WebSphere Application Server V8.5 WebSphere Application Server V8.0 WebSphere Application Server V7.0
Developing Java EE applications Yes*
Attention: *The tools for developing EJB applications support EJB 3.0 and 3.1.
Yes Yes Yes
Develop CDI applications Yes* Yes Yes No
Develop JAX-RS applications Yes Yes Yes Yes
Developing Web service applications Yes* Yes Yes Yes
Develop Web 2.0 and mobile web applications Yes Yes Yes Yes
Developing OSGi applications Yes
Note: The tools for developing OSGi applications support the following technologies:
  • Web 2.5
  • Web 3.0
  • [8.5.5.4 or later]Web 3.1
  • JPA
  • JAX-RS
  • JSF
Yes
Note: The tools for developing OSGi applications support the following technologies:
  • Web 2.5
  • Web 3.0
  • JPA
  • JAX-RS
  • JSF
  • EJB
Yes
Note: The tools for developing OSGi applications support the following technologies:
  • Web 2.5
  • Web 3.0
  • JPA
  • JAX-RS
  • JSF
No
The star icon (*) indicates that support is available starting in Version 8.5.5 release for WebSphere Application Server Liberty.

Supported server tasks

The following features are supported on all WebSphere Application Servers:
  • Migrate the server when you import applications that are targeted to a server that is not valid (except WebSphere Application Server Liberty).
  • Start and stop a remote server (including Version 8.5.5.4 release for WebSphere Application Server Liberty and later).
  • Run and debug administrative script files on the server (except WebSphere Application Server Liberty).
Note: The workbench does not support WebSphere Application Server V7.0 feature packs and managed (federated) WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environments.

Getting started

To get started, see Installing WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse.
See the WASdev community site:
  • To participate in or post questions in the forum.
  • To learn more about the workbench from the collection of articles and sample code.
  • To get community news through blog entries.
  • To help improve the workbench by reporting defects and requesting feature enhancements.

Getting help

WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools for Eclipse provides you with access to the Rational® Application Developer documentation.
Note: Some documented features are available only with the full Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software product.
For details about how to integrate the workbench with the server, see Testing and publishing on a server.

Additional features available with Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

For enterprise-level development, consider using Rational Application Developer as your integrated development environment. Rational Application Developer provides a complete environment for Java, Java EE, web, web services, SOA, OSGi, Web 2.0, mobile, and portal designers and developers, including the server development tools. It also provides integration and support for the following application servers and associated feature packs:
  • WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty
  • WebSphere Application Server V8.5
  • WebSphere Application Server V8.0
  • WebSphere Application Server V7.0

Rational Application Developer is designed to accelerate development and unit test to ensure delivery of higher quality applications. It offers tools for teams that are using the emerging trends of Web 2.0, SOA, OSGi, and Cloud computing that help accelerate adoption and software delivery.

For more information about this product, see Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software.

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