I am using eciipse helios. I want to create a bpel transform like in this tutorial. But I don't see a transform activity in the "Actions" section or the "Control 2" section of my palette. What's up?
The tutorial you linked is from Oracle and the IDE they provide is JDeveloper. Eclipse is not JDeveloper, so you don't have the same palettes. You will have to download JDeveloper, if you want to replicate the tutorial.
I assume (from the link) that you want to write an XSL transformation. You can also do this with Eclipse. The Web Tools Platform which is included in the Java EE version of Eclipse, comes with support for writing XSL transformations.
This is because the BPEL 2.0 specification does not define such an activity. It is a proprietary extension defined by Oracle, thus it is only available in Oracle products. The open source Eclipse BPEL projects aims at providing support for the BPEL standard only.
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I have been looking for a visualizer for apache camel and found Eclipse based graphical Camel editor from JBoss. But after installation of RedHat codeready studio and using the sample project in it, seems like it supports only camel-context.xml. My routes are in Java DSL. Is there no tool available for visualizing Java routes
No there is no visual tools for editing Java DSL.
Usually a real programming language such as Java is best used by developers whom can write code.
And for visual tools with drag/drop etc then its high level where such tool generates the "code" in a markup language such as XML, YAML or custom format.
The Java DSL is high level and non savy Java developers can get comforable with just coding. Also users that have started with the visual XML editor would after some time get used to working directly with the XML code.
You can use Hawtio with the Camel plugin to visualize your Java DSL routes graphically. It also exposes a UI for viewing/downloading (and even editing) Java routes as XML, enabling you to bring them into the Eclipse-based FUSE Tooling, if you wanted to.
According to the Hawtio website, JBoss FUSE already includes Hawtio.
I have installed BPMN2 Modeler in Eclipse, but when I try to run it, nothing happens (it stays on java interface). I go to project - general project. From here, it stays on java interface, instead on modeling interface.
How to run BPMN2 in Eclipse?
Thanks.
You cannot run a bpmn process in eclipse. You need to generate a deployable artifact and deploy it in a BPMN engine. Follow [1] on how it can be done using WSO2's eclipse based tooling - Developer studio and deploy in the enterprise integrator bps profile.
[1] - https://docs.wso2.com/display/EI611/Creating+a+BPMN+Process
BPEL can install in Netbeans ?
When I search tutorial about BPEL, always use elcipse to code.
and I think netbeans use simple more than eclipse.
Why are they always use eclipse to code BPEL >
I recommend to use the development tools which work with the BPEL implementation (run-time) you have chosen, i.e. first to choose the run-time. The BPEL language itself is a standard, but the run-times differ so much, that you need to align the development tools with run-time in order to be efficient.
If you plan to use Oracle SOA Suite, then the best choice will be JDeveloper. If you plan to use JBoss Switchyard (which uses Riftsaw BPEL implementation), the best choice will be Eclipse (or the JBoss Developer Studio, which is a JBoss brand of Eclipse). Similarly with other platforms.
What's the difference between these
Eclipse with the Spring IDE plugin
Spring Tool Suite (STS) alone
I ask because STS says it's built on top of Eclipse, and I wonder what differences it has over simply using a plugin that adds similar functionality to "vanilla" Eclipse.
It's true, STS is built on top of Eclipse. The difference is only related to another products support from the STS installation, like Roo, Pivotal tc Server, Cloud Foundry and getting started guides, but you could also include this features in your Eclipse installation.
So STS gives a complete solution around Spring features and simplifies the developer environment install, that's the key difference.
As Martin Lippert explains in the forums:
"So you can end-up having the same features in STS and your existing
Eclipse installation after installing the STS features into it."
You could find more details on the Spring forums.
Details on features: STS features and Spring IDE plugin features.
Spring Tool suite has ready to go features specially designed to spring supported projects and cloud environment. And Eclipse is more generic where we've to add the plugins and extensions for our platform setup.
There is already an article about this in DZone Spring IDE and the Spring Tool Suite - Using Spring in Eclipse.
While the Spring IDE project provides a set of plugins for the Eclipse
IDE, the Spring Tool Suite comes as a ready-to-use distribution of the
latest Eclipse releases with the Spring IDE components pre-installed.
This includes the tc Server integration for Eclipse (another IDE
extension that is provided by Pivotal as an open-source project) and
various other additions to Eclipse that turn the pure Eclipse IDE into
a ready-to-use, best-of-breed environment for enterprise Spring
application development.
I was developing java ee applications in netbeans, for some reason I jumped to eclipse.
In netbeans when I click on "entity classes from database" I used to see oracle's data source, basically the database. And easily I used to create my beans.
Now, is there any way to do so in eclipse? If so, how to do that?
There is no direct equivalent for the netbeans functionality you are seeking in eclipse (or at least not that I know of in the stock eclipse install).
For starters, you should be using the eclipse version built for Java EE developers. It has a Data source explorer as one of the tabs. Here, you can add data sources that you can use to configure your applications.
More information here.