Genuitec Releases MyEclipse 7.5
Genuitec, which provides a commercial Eclipse-based IDE, last week released an upgraded version of its commercial Eclipse IDE that supports Java profiling and a visual tool for database development.
Based near Dallas, Genuitec’s Eclipse-based tools are a viewed as a viable and affordable alternative to IBM’s Rational Application Developer tools, while more fully featured than open source alternatives.
MyEclipse carries a license fee ranging from $30 to $150. "They have been successful in building a business model around this fairly low priced tool approach," said IDC analyst Al Hilwa
The new release, dubbed MyEclipse 7.5, comes with comes with what the company’s VisualVM Java Profiler. That allows Java developers using the Eclipse-based IDE to profile enterprise servers as well as enterprise Java application servers.
The Visual SQL Builder will appeal to developers who don’t know how to work with inner and outer joins to build complex SQL queries, allowing them to build them graphically, said Todd Williams Genuitec’s VP of technology.
The main users of MyEclipse are enterprise Java developers, Williams said. "Since their main strengths are in building ecommerce sites and portals, a lot of them don’t have a lot of deep database experience, they have enough to get by. So providing a visual tool will let them build queries more complicated than they could with SQL syntax."
The company also updated all of its UML tools for UML 2.1 support, he added. Among other things, Java developers use UML to reverse engineer Java code into diagrams, Williams said. "That’s highly useful if you walk into a strange code base and you want to see a picture of what you are getting into," he said.
The company offers three versions: standard, professional and Blue Edition. The latter supports all versions of IBM’s WebSphere application servers and competes with IBM’s Rational Application Developer 7.5 tools.
The new MyEclipse 7.5 Blue Edition now supports remote development and deployment for WebSphere servers that are not running on a developer’s local machine. It also now directly supports IBM’s project formats, which allows developers to take projects that have already gone into production built using IBM’s RAD or WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) tools and work on them directly in Eclipse 7.5 without migrating them, Williams said
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