Specifically, that includes Exadel’s front end development tools that include Studio Pro, a web application development toolset which supports JSF, Struts, Hibernate, and Spring; RichFaces which provides visual components; and Ajax4jsf, which provides a way for using JSF components to generate Ajax-style rich clients. While Exadel still formally owns the technologies, since march, JBoss has assumed control over development.
It also includes what’s known as the JBoss core platform, which includes the JBoss Enterprise appserver plus JBoss Seam (JSeam), a lightweight framework for integrating Java presentation (JSF) and transaction layers (EJB 3.0); plus the Hibernate persistence technology.
It’s the latest step in Red’s JBoss assembly a full technology stack that reaches from the middle tier back end to the rich web development front end. Just last month, it released version 4.2 of its back end enterprise platform which bundled in the JSeam and Hibernate into an officially certified distribution available through a single download. And it comes on the heels of last month’s pronouncement by JBoss that its accompanying portal technology had finally stabilized and was ready for prime time.
With Developer Studio in beta now, Red Hat expects the product to enter final release around late September.
