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<h1>Web Tools Platform 0.7 M5 - New and Noteworthy</h1>
<p>This milestone focussed largely on code cleanups, but significant requested functionality was also added:</p>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b>Batch Validation</b></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="85%"> <p>The Java source code warnings and errors that were confined to the JSP Source Page Editor in prior milestones are now available from a full-fledged validator. Detected errors now appear in the Problems view.</p><p><img src="jsp-batch-validation.jpg"/></p><br /><p><img src="jsp-syntax-validator.jpg"/></p> </td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b>Expression Language Support</b></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="85%"> <p>Support for the JSP Expression Language has been significantly improved in this milestone. In addition to Content Assist, keywords are highlighted and EL syntax is validated along with traditional JSP syntax, both in the editor and as part of batch validation.</p><p><img src="el-keywords.jpg"/></p><br /><p><img src="el-validation.jpg"/></p> </td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b> Server-side content background highlighting </b></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="85%"> <p>To more easily identify code sections within JSP files, the Java source can now have its background color set independently. </p><p><img src="jsp-background.jpg"/></p> </td>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b> Custom Tag defined variables allowed </b></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" width="85%"> <p>Code variables defined by a custom action's TagExtraInfo class are now supported within the editor and for validation. </p><p><img src="custom-tag-variable.jpg"/></p> </td>
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