Scout/NewAndNoteworthy/3.8

Eclipse Scout New and Noteworthy

Simple. Stable. Flexible

• Eclipse Scout is a mature and open framework for modern, service oriented business applications.
• It substantially boosts developer productivity and is simple to learn.
• User friendly applications are straight forward to implement with Scout’s comprehensive set of user interface components.
• Completely based on Java/Eclipse, Scout Applications are easy to integrate in most IT environments.

Scout 3.8 Overview (Juno)

Scout has started integration into Eclipse Juno builds. Things don't look too bad for now.

However, with bug 365911 we've still a blocking issue for the Scout SDK that should hopefully be solved with Juno M5.

New in Scout Runtime

• Web Applications with Scout based on RAP Integration including Scout SDK support
• SVG Field as an additional UI Component
• JAX-WS Integration. See this post for an intro.

New in Scout SDK

• Support to create/maintain JAX-WS consumers and provider. Check out the corresponding The Scout documentation has been moved to https://eclipsescout.github.io/.
• Support to create Scout webapps
• Restructuring of Scout Properties View

Scout 3.7 Overview (Indigo)

Eclipse Scout is a new Eclipse project officially released under the EPL for the first time with the Indigo release train.

New in Scout Core

• Column Filter

New column filter feature. Scout Tables now have a column filter feature that allows simple content based filtering. Right click on a column header cell and choose menu "Column Filter .."

• Memory Policy

Introduction of a memory policy for Scout clients. Based on the memory policy defined a scout client may uses different caching mechanisms for the construction and handling of outlines.

• Dynamic Log-Level Setting

Log-Levels can be defined/changed at runtime for Scout applications.

New in Scout SDK

• Scout Object Properties show Tool Tips

• Automatic Form Data Creation

• Context Menu "Export to WAR" on Server Node of Scout Explorer (see deploy tutorial)