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| <component name="Server Tools"> |
| <item title="Create Server With Runtime"> |
| <description> |
| When you create a runtime you can now create a server at the same time. |
| If this option is available for the runtime you're creating, just select |
| the <b>Also create new local server</b> option at the bottom of the dialog. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/tomcat6b.png" alt="Also create new local server"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Servers view menu"> |
| <description> |
| The Servers view context menu has been improved for Eclipse consistency and |
| new options have been added, along with a Properties dialog.<br/> |
| <img src="server/serversViewMenu.png" alt="Servers view context menu"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Publish Clean"> |
| <description> |
| The Servers view has a new <b>Clean...</b> option which will perform a |
| "clean" publish on the server. Much like clean builds, this will remove |
| any invalid resources from the server before doing a full republish. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/clean.png" alt="Clean publish action on context menu"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Publishing performance"> |
| <description> |
| A new binary format and removal of duplicate information have improved both |
| the size and performance of storing the publishing history file by 70-90%. |
| <!-- While it won't make much difference to the average user, t-->This improvement |
| will decrease workspace size and improve publishing performance for extremely |
| large applications. |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="HTTP Server Support"> |
| <description> |
| Thanks to a donation from ATF, WTP now supports publishing static web |
| applications to local HTTP servers! You can specify the directory to |
| publish to, which port the HTTP server uses, and any URL prefix that |
| your Apache (or other) HTTP server uses. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/httpServer.gif" alt="HTTP server support"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Built-in Preview Server"> |
| <description> |
| Want to compile or run a web application quickly, without waiting to download |
| or install an external server? The new Preview server allows you to do |
| exactly that - it supports static and dynamic web apps and allow you to preview |
| their function on the embedded Jetty server. |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Apache Tomcat v6 Support"> |
| <description> |
| WTP now supports Apache Tomcat v6! |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/tomcat6.png" alt="Tomcat 6 support"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Manage Tomcat Work Directories"> |
| <description> |
| Need to clean Tomcat's work directories? Two new menu items in the Servers view |
| allow you to <b>Clean Tomcat Work Directory</b> or <b>Clean Module Work Directory</b> |
| without leaving Eclipse. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/cleanworkdir.png" alt="Clean server Work Directory context menu action on the server"/> |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/cleanmodule.png" alt="Clean Module Work Directory context menu action on the module"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Configure Tomcat's Paths"> |
| <description> |
| There are new user settable paths for the Tomcat server (with server editor UI |
| still under development). |
| The <b>Server path</b> allows you to specify a separate instance of the Tomcat server |
| at a location of your choice. |
| The <b>Deploy path</b> allows you avoid using the "webapps" directory and the |
| complications that arise with auto-deployment and default web applications. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/tomcatPaths.png" alt="Configurable paths"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Tomcat Publishing Options"> |
| <description> |
| Two new options which affect publishing are now available in the Server Options |
| section of the Tomcat server editor. The Tomcat server must be 5.0.x or later |
| for these options to be enabled. The <b>Serve modules without publishing</b> |
| option does what it says. Web content will be served directly from the "WebContent" |
| folder of the Dynamic Web Project. A customized context is used to make the project's |
| dependencies available in the Web application's classloader. |
| The <b>Publish module contexts to separate XML files</b> option will publish contexts |
| using the preferred method of separate XML files under the "conf/Catalina/localhost" |
| directory, rather than keeping them in the "server.xml" file. A couple of |
| improvements for this option are noted in Bugs 180931 and 180936. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/tomcatOpts.png" alt="Tomcat publishing options"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Debug Last Launched"> |
| <description> |
| Have you ever used Run on Server, hit a bug in your application, and then hit F11 |
| to test again, only to find out that it tries to start the server again instead? |
| This long standing and annoying bug has been fixed, so you can now use F11 |
| (or Ctrl-F11 for debug) to rerun just the last html page or EJB. |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| <item title="Servers view initialization"> |
| <description> |
| The Servers view is no longer blocked from opening until the servers API |
| is done initializing. The Servers view now appears immediately and shows |
| the text "Initializing..." until servers have been loaded in the background. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| This change is consistent with JDT's approach to background loading and will |
| allow perspectives containing the Servers view to appear immediately instead |
| of being blocked by workspaces with lots of servers or adopter extensions. |
| <br/> |
| <br/> |
| <img src="server/serversViewInit.png" alt="Servers view initialization"/> |
| </description> |
| </item> |
| </component> |
| </release> |
