The GlassFishTM Tools Bundle for Eclipse Release Notes contain important information on the release, including limitations and known issues.
Check this document prior to installing the software. Revisit the document periodically for most up-to-date information.
This section provides a record of changes in Release Notes.
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Date |
Description of Changes |
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March 2009 |
Initial Release |
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May 2009 |
1.0 Release |
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July 2009 |
1.1 Release |
This section provides an overview of the product and what is new in this release.
The GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse is an open source project. It is a co-bundle of Eclipse IDE, GlassFish Server v2.1 and GlassFish Server v3 Prelude and the plug-in that integrates these products.
The GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse allows you to build applications with the Eclipse IDE and deploy them to the GlassFish Server.
The following new features are available in 1.1 release:
The bundled plug-in is upgraded to 1.0.29 (from version 1.0.26 in 1.0 release)
Support for Open Solaris (x86) platform
IZPack Installer for Open Solaris and Linux distributions
Metro Web Services Stack plug-in is integrated
Maven Plug-in is integrated
Preregistered MySQL JDBC driver
This section lists product availability on platforms.
The product distributions are available with JDK (version J2SE 6 1.6.0_12) option. ( Mac OS distribution is not available with JDK option).
If you are selecting a distribution without JDK, make sure you have a recommended Sun JDK installed in your environment.
The following table lists the product availability on platforms and the recommended JDK version.
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Operating System |
Recommended JDK |
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Windows XP Professional SP2 |
J2SE 5TM 1.5.0_14 or later J2SE 6TM 1.6.0_03 or later |
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Mac OS X 10.4.11 |
J2SE 5 1.5.0_14 or later J2SE 6 1.6.0_03 or later |
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RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 |
J2SE 5 1.5.0_14 or later J2SE 6 1.6.0_03 or later |
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Ubuntu Linux 8 |
J2SE 5 1.5.0_14 or later J2SE 6 1.6.0_03 or later |
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Open Solaris 2009.6 |
J2SE 5 1.5.0_14 or later J2SE 6 1.6.0_03 or later |
This section lists the limitations of the product and known issues in this release.
Some of the features described in the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse User Guide documentation are available in GlassFish Server v3 Prelude only and not in GlassFish Server v2.1.
Support for Java EE functionality is dependent on GlassFish Server version. Some GlassFish Server features are not available in this release.
An upgrade from an earlier installation is not supported in this release. To install a new version of software, uninstall the previous installation and then install the new version.
If you are updating the GlassFish plugin which comes with GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse 1.1 version, and use the New->Server wizard approach to do so, it will result in failure because of a permission problem.
For a complete description of the issue, see Issue 233.
The workaround for this issue is to use Eclipse's update site mechanism to update the plugin instead of the New->Server wizard approach.
This issue will be fixed in version 1.2 of the bundle.
This section provides a list of fixed issues in the current releases of the product.
For a chronological list of bug fixes and improvements to the plug-in, see the plug-in release notes.
The following table contains a list of fixed issues in this release.
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Issue |
Description |
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Change default install location for windows, which causes permission issues. |
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If the workspace name contains a blank space, GlassFish servers failed to preregister. |
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Using workspace from previous bundle installation produces unexpected results. |
The GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse provides a User Guide for the product to help you to get started. The product documentation is available from here: GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse User Guide.
Additional useful information can be found at the following locations