[news.eclipse.commercial] JBoss Tools 3.1 M2 is now available

[rayme.jernigan@xxxxxxxxx (Rayme Jernigan)]

This milestone release, which builds upon the last month's Eclipse 3.5 
Galileo release, contains many bug fixes and a several noteworthy features 
and improvements.

* Maven Integration with m2eclipse -  For this release we focused on 
making the Seam Wizard (really, Eclipse WTP's project wizards) capable of 
creating Maven-ready projects. Subsequent milestones will improve support 
for importing from existing Maven projects.

* XHTML Validation - We have enabled proper XML validation of .xhtml files 
so you now get proper warnings for namespaced tags.

* Conditional Rendering in Visual Page Editor - Until now configured EL 
expressions in the Visual Page Editor were only used for including 
resources. As of M2, we evaluate EL expressions in rendered attributes to 
allow you to hide parts of the rendering in the editor just as it would 
look like in your application when running. No more double-vision!

* Improved Incremental Validation - The speed of validation of EL 
expressions when you save a file is now greatly improved.

* Smooks - The Smooks editor has undergone massive changes in M1 and M2. 
This release continues adding more features and improvements to the Smooks 
configuration editor.

* jBPM 4 - We have included jBPM 4 into this release, making the tools 
support both jBPM 3 and 4.

* Archived Update Site - Now that Eclipse's provisioning story, p2, has 
matured we are moving away from the old "runnable" zips and now provide an 
update site "repo" zip. This archive can be used to install the JBoss 
Tools plugins via p2 instead of the now deprecated and less predictable 
dropins folder. Thanks to pack200 compression, this single zip is smaller 
than each of the older platform-specific zips.

For all the details and to download your copy, see:

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/JBossTools31M2NowWithMaven