MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench (www.myeclipseide.com) extends the
Eclipse open-source platform into a professional grade, full featured
J2EE and web development IDE. Priced at $30/yr, subscribers receive
unlimited upgrades with new features shipped an average of every 8-12
weeks, free online support, tutorials and documentation.

New Features Summary:
Visual HTML Designer (WYSIWYG), HTML Tidy Integration, Enhanced CSS
and new Java Script Editors, Struts Modeler, JSF project support,
SunOne Connectors and dependent project deployment for Eclipse 2.x

Details
MyEclipse (www.myeclipseide.com) Enterprise Workbench, version 2.8.0
beta-1 for Eclipse 2.1.* is now available for immediate download. This
release includes a considerable number features and enhancements, and
marks a significant transition for MyEclipse into Rapid Application
Development(RAD) tooling. Main enhancements include:

RAD Tooling
Visual HTML Designer for WYSIWYG development, real-time preview mode,
and round trip source code generation. Currently available for WIN32
platform, The new integrated editor/viewer/designer offers a high
productivity and full featured visual HTML development environment.
Visual Struts/JSF and support for Linux and Mac OS/X are currently
under development.

Image Previewer/Browser presents fast thumbnail sized view of images
in gif, jpg, png, bmp, and ico formats. Display is based on the
current selected image in the workbench. This enables image browsing
through an image/icons folder using arrow up/down key navigation for
rapid image viewing.

HTML formatting, validation, and error marking. A rich set of user
preferences are provided for customization.

Improved Struts wizards and introduction of Structured Element
Editors. Form and Action wizards now allow specification of custom
superclass or an existingclass/superclass. Overall wizard design have
been streamlined to improve input efficiency.

Improved Struts Flow View. Primary enhancements include colorized
nodes,resizable and repositionable nodes, customizable flow connection
routing, and new auto-layout algorithm. The Flow View is currently
being reengineered to serve as a complete application flow modeling
solution for Struts and JSF application. The current Flow View
features are a very preliminary preview of core modeler features under
development.

Java Server Faces (JSF) project support enables configuring any
MyEclipse web project with JSF libraries, tag-libraries, and
application configuration file.

New and Enhanced Editors
Enhanced Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) editor. Feature enhancements
include: Smart editor with content assist, syntax checking and color
coding
       - Outline view for easy navigation
       - CSS property details
       - Extensive customization and configuration options

New JavaScript Editor. new JavaScript editor with baseline
capabilities mainly for color coding. Additional features will be
added in follow on releases based on user input.

Sun Java System Application Server Connector.
Support for the Sun Java System application server (8.0) is now
available through a new MyEclipse server connector. This connector
allows developers to configure and start/stop a server instance,
deploy all MyEclipse J2EE project types, and perform JSR-045 native
JSP debugging and hot-swap Java debugging. MyEclipse is the first J2EE
IDE to support native JSP debugging per the JSR 045 specification and
hot-sync exploded project deployment.

Smart Dependent Project Deployment.
MyEclipse J2EE project deployer now supports advanced deployment of
dependent Java projects. With this release, any Java project that is
on the classpath of a web project can be configured to be
automatically packaged for deployment of the web project through
global workspace preferences or at the web project properties level.
Now hot-sync deployment will detect changed resources in dependent
projects and seamlessly deploy them along with the primary project.

Please review New and Noteworthy Section
(http://www.myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-50.html) and
Release Notes (http://www.myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-27.html
)for screen shots and enhancement/bug fixes included in the 2.8.0
Beta-1 release. Please note, that 2.8.0 is a Beta release and is only
intended as an early access product. Please don't use for production
development or over-write your 2.7.1 environment.

Support for Eclipse 3.0 will be available one week after the release
of Eclipse 3.0 M9.

To learn more visit www.myeclipseide.com
MyEclipse Support