Below is a comparison matrix to illustrate what parts of JBoss Tools have been included in the various releases of Developer Studio and which additional out-of-the-box setup and software Developer Studio provides. It should be noted that JBoss Tools is a set of plugins that can be installed into Eclipse while Developer Studio makes the getting started out-of-the-box experience easier and simpler. This is evident in the matrix below with entries showing that Developer Studio has an installer that helps in configuring your runtimes, distributes Eclipse and WTP, and includes support for the supported platforms from JBoss (EAP, EWP, EWS, SOA, and EPP).
| JBoss Tools 2.x | JBoss Tools 3.0.x | JBoss Tools 3.1 | JBoss Tools 3.2.x | JBoss Tools 3.3.x (Core & SOA) | Developer Studio 1.x | Developer Studio 2.x | Developer Studio 3.0.x | Developer Studio 4.0.x | Developer Studio 4.1.x | Developer Studio 5.0.x (Core & SOA) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Features: | |||||||||||
| Hibernate | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Seam | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| CDI (JSR-299) | X | X | X | X (Tooling Tech Preview) | X (Tech preview) | X (Tech preview) | X | ||||
| jBPM | X | X | X | X (v3 & 4) | X (SOA) | X | X | X | X (v3 only) | X (v3) | X (SOA) |
| Visual Page Editor | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| FreeMarker | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Struts | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| JBoss AS | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Project Archives | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Drools | X | X | X | X (SOA) | X | X | X | X | X (SOA) | ||
| Portlet | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| ESB | X | X | X | X (SOA) | X | X | X | X | X (SOA) | ||
| JBoss Webservices | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Smooks | X | X | X | X (SOA) | X | X | X | ||||
| Birt Integration | X | X | X | X | |||||||
| TPTP Integration | X | X | X | (TPTP not part of Indigo) | X (requires TPTP to be installed) | X (requires TPTP to be installed) | X (requires TPTP to be installed) | (TPTP not part of Indigo) | |||
| Maven | X (requires m2eclipse) | X (requires m2eclipse) | X (requires m2e) | X | |||||||
| Usage (tracking) | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Modeshape | X | X (SOA) | X | X | X (SOA) | ||||||
| Teiid | X | X (SOA) | X | X | X (SOA) | ||||||
| Delta Cloud | X | X | |||||||||
| Setup: | |||||||||||
| Zip | X | X | X (deprecated) | ||||||||
| Update site | X | X | X | X | X | X (since 2.1) | X | X | X (+extras) | X (Core & SOA) | |
| Archived Update Site | X | X | X | (X) | |||||||
| Installer | X | X | X | X | X | X (Core) | |||||
| 3rd Party plugins: | |||||||||||
| Eclipse | X | X | X (3.4) | X (3.5) | X (3.6) | X (3.6+) | X (3.7) | ||||
| Web Tools | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| SpringIDE | X | X | X | X | X | X | X (extras) | ||||
| TestNG | X | X | X | X | X | X | X (extras) | ||||
| Integrated Platforms: | |||||||||||
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | X (EAP 4) | X (EAP 4) | X (EAP 4) | X (EAP 5) | X (EAP 5) | X (EAP 6) | |||||
| JBoss SOA Platform | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (seperate download) | X (seperate download) | ||||||
| JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | ||||||
| JBoss Enterprise Web Server | X (separate download) | X (separate download) | X (seperate download) | X (seperate download) |
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