Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 RC0 - New and Noteworthy Eclipse WTP 2.0 RC0 News

The march toward Europa continues with the first release candidate for the Web Tools Platform! As expressed in the Ramp Down Plan, all of the features planned for 2.0 weren't ready in time for M6. With RC0, WTP should now be feature-complete for the 2.0 release. Accordingly, here are some of the more noteworthy features available in WTP 2.0 RC0 (May 18, 2007), which is now available for download here.

WTP Components

• Java EE, JSF, and JSP Tools
• JPA Tools
• Web Services and WSDL Tools
• XML, XML Schema and DTD Tools

Here are the bugs that were fixed during this release candidate.

The above features are just the ones that are new since the last milestone build. Summaries for earlier 2.0 milestone builds:

• New for WTP 2.0 milestone build M6 (April 6, 2007)
• New for WTP 2.0 milestone build M5 (February 23, 2007)
• New for WTP 2.0 milestone build M4 (January 5, 2007)
• Full summaries for earlier releases.