Finally, after using 4.0M2 for a while, I am upgrading to the GA (General Availability) version of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench. Among the new features that comes with this release, I'm most interested in their UML Perspective, their JSF support and the new Visual Web Designer. You can check all the new features here.

For only $31.75/year, I really think it is a great bargain for the features that Eclipse needs for web development.

Oh, and I don't have any relation to Genuitec, the company behind MyEclipse.

I haven't been able to continue my regular posting streak because I've been really busy at work. Which in a sense, it's a good thing. I've been doing a lot of Struts, Spring, Tiles, etc. stuff, and hopefully I'll be able to put some tips and tricks that I come up across with.

One of the things that I've come up across with, is the correct way to use Tiles. I was having a lot of troubles getting some information from a tile component.

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Space shuttle Discovery succesfully touched down at Edwards AFB this morning, after two weeks in space. It is amazing that people are still willing to go to space in a bucket of bolts designed in the 70's.

I just upgraded my website to Pebble 1.9, and after some serious snafu on my part (you should clean your work directory for better results), it is finally running.

I like the new features, and everything seems to be in working order. Oh, and I will do the MT import soon, as it now comes with it's own importer.

I listened yesterday to the first JavaCast, which is an mp3-based talk show downloaded from the internet and played on your favorite player (yes, you don't have to own an iPod to listen to podcasts). I thought it was good in general, and I hope the quality of the interviews remain the same as the y move forward.

The interview with Craig R. McClanahan was interesting as it gave some background on how Struts came to be and what are the future plans for Struts, JSF and Struts+JSF. The talk about scripting in Java, though, felt more like a table of contents of what surely is a topic that needs more time to discuss.

When blogs started to appear, everyone and their relatives wanted to be part of it (I, of course, among them). But I won't be joining the podcasting scene anytime soon. It's one thing putting your thoughts on writing, and another totally different thing to just blurt everything out over some microphone.

Oh, and then there's the accent problem... ;)

So, after playing around with Eclipse's Web Tools Project 0.7, which was released last friday and reading some of the documentation from the site, I can say that, at least for me, WTP isn't ready for prime time yet.

The developers of WTP acknowledge this, as they changed the version number from 1.0 to 0.7 from the original plan, and hope to have a version 1.0 until the end of this year. Although a lot of functionality is already there and working, the feel for it is that there's still a lot to do.

You can't convert an existing project to a web project, for example. Source and webapp dir routes seem to be non-changeable, and there's still lack of support for many Application Servers.

For me, it's back to MyEclipse IDE, with no plans to change to WTP in the near future.