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. So far, things don't look too bad. However, with bug 365911 we've still a blocking issue for the Scout SDK that should hopefully be solved with Juno M5.

Scout Web UI support based on RAP in addition to the Swing and SWT UI

With Eclipse Juno Scout supports building web applications in addition to the previously supported Swing/SWT desktop technologies. Two scenarios are supported:

• Migrate existing Scout Desktop applications into the browser with minimal effort
• Build new Scout applications that simultaneously run in the browser and as rich applications on the desktop

This is possible through the clean separation of the application model from the UI in Eclipse Scout. In this case it allows the Scout developer to build the application only once. Everything can be done using existing Scout/Java/Eclipse development know how (no new framework to learn, no javascript to learn).

The benefit to the end user of Scout applications lies in the fact that both applications for the web and the desktop provide identical look and feels.

JAX-WS Integration

A typical scenario for Eclipse Scout applications in the enterprise environment is to communicate with other applications through web services. With Eclipse Juno, Scout is moving from the previously supported Apache Axis framework to the more modern and active JAX-WS technology.

See this post for an brief introduction to the scope of our JAX-WS integration.

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• 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)