Thursday, August 23, 2007

MyEclipse 6.0 Released - Spring/JPA Integration, Java 6, Europa

Genuitec has announced the release of the commercial MyEclipse 6.0, offering advanced features and integration for Spring and Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) development. This Eclipse plugin set allows users to create entity managers and transaction manager beans, generate entities and DOA and much more through the cross-capabilities bridge created by MyEclipse.

MyEclipse 6.0 includes the following enhancements over previous releases:
  • Platform and Installation Support
    • Eclipse 3.3/Europa 1.0 compatible
    • Java 5 & Java 6 support
    • Windows (XP, Vista), Linux, Mac
  • Java EE 5 & Spring Feature Improvements
    • EJB3 improved project flexibility, bean generation from DB schema
    • JPA
      • Project actions to generate Entities and DAOs from DB schema
      • Automatically maintains entity classes in persistence.xml
      • Improved JPA project capabilities configuration
      • Improved documentation and examples
    • Spring 2.0 upgrade with enhanced configuration and management
    • Hibernate upgrade
    • Advanced Spring-JPA Integration
      • JPA-Spring project configuration creates:
        • Spring EntityManagerFactory and JpaTransactionManager beans
        • annotation-driven configuration
      • JPA Entity and DAO generated by reverse engineering from DB schema
      • Updated documentation and examples
  • AJAX Development & Testing
    • Apple Macintosh Support – all AJAX features now on Mac
    • Improved AJAX Web Browser
    • Improved AJAX Tools
      • DOM Inspector – added filter/search support
      • DOM Source view – real-time status and dynamic source editing
      • Improved JavaScript Console
      • New DOM Watcher View
      • New CSS Viewer
      • New JavaScript View
      • New DOM Compare View
    • Enhanced JavaScript Debugging
      • JavaScript Scripts Inspector - added support dynamic resource types
      • Suspend On conditions: (debugger keyword, exceptions, errors, startup)
      • Launch configurations now support project files and URLs
      • Launch configurations can be saved in projects
  • RAD Web Development
    • Struts – 1.3 support with full libraries/configuration
    • Facelets
      • Extended JSF Designer to support the for editing content-assist and validation.
  • Matisse4MyEclipse Visual Swing Designer
    • Matisse4MyEclipse Visual Swing Designer can now be installed in any Eclipse 3.3 instance without the full MyEclipse IDE Core. Get the most popular and advanced Swing Designer for Eclipse in a light-weight plugin footprint.
  • Rapid Java EE Deployment and Testing
    • Automated project deployment and launch services
      • Debug On MyEclipse Server & Run On MyEclipse Server
        • Automatically deploys project and launches server in specified debug or run modes
        • Automatically stops a running server before deployment
        • Automatically redeploys an existing application deployment
    • Sun Glassfish V2 new deployment/reloads
    • MyEclipse Tomcat 6 Server – local integration, launches in one second
    • MyEclipse Derby Server
      • Automatically launch server on JDBC connection
      • Configurable startup options
  • MyEclipse Learning Center (Help & Educational Material)
    • Integrated example Java EE source code projects repository
    • One-Click install of MyEclipse Java EE example projects
from: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=46653

Monday, August 6, 2007

The Forbidden Kingdom

Directed by Rob Minkoff, Yuen Woo-ping (action director)
Produced by Ryan Kavanaugh, Casey Silver,
Written by John Fusco (screenplay)
Wu Cheng'en (story)
Starring Jackie Chan
Jet Li
Michael Angarano
Liu Yifei
Cinematography Peter Pau
Editing by Eric Strand
Distributed by Lionsgate
The Weinstein Company
Release date(s) 2008
Country USA
Language English



The Forbidden Kingdom
is a film collaboration between Jackie Chan and Jet Li, with action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping. The film is currently in production as of July 11, 2007. As of April 2007 the film is officially titled The Forbidden Kingdom, before it had been often referred to as The J & J Project. Director Rob Minkoff (who previously helmed such films as The Lion King and the Stuart Little films) will be behind the camera while Yuen Woo Ping will handle the fight choreography. Film studios Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company, will share distributing duties.

Actor

Jackie Chan AS ---> Lu Yan

Jet Li AS ---> Sun Wukong The Monkey King / Lan Cai He

Lie Bingbing AS ---> White Haired Demoness

Liu Yi Fei AS ---> Golden Sparrow

Michael Angarano AS ---> Jason Williams

Collin Chou AS --> Warlord


In a posting on his official blog at Alivenotdead.com, Jet Li sheds light on his character(s) in the highly anticipated movie "The Forbidden Kingdom," in which he pairs (finally!) with Jackie Chan in a Westernized take on the classic "Journey to the West" tale.

In this re-telling, an American teenager (Michael Angarano) discovers a staff which transports him to ancient China where he joins in a quest to return the staff to the Monkey King. Jet Li plays the dual role of the Monkey King and Silent Monk while Jackie Chan will play a kung fu master named Lu Yan.

"[W]hen I first received the script three years ago the producer approached me to play the role of the Monkey King, but at that time there were problems with the script ... At that time they portrayed the Monk as a great fighter [which is a huge departure from the original story]," he writes.

Feeling Asian audiences would not accept this drastic of a change, Jet suggested they have the Monkey King transform into the monk. "Since the Monkey King knows the 72 'earthly methods for transformations,' he can pull one of his hairs out and transform himself into the Monk."

Other than that, Jet suggested to the producer they take more liberties with the story saying, "This is a dream of this American kid's interpretation of these characters so there is a lot of room for creativity."

As for "Fearless" being billed as Jet Li's final martial arts movie, you wouldn't believe in all that marketing spin, would you?

"Forbidden Kingdom" is directed by Rob Minkoff ("Stuart Little") for a 2008 release; the film also stars Collin Chou, Li Bingbing, and Liu Yifei. Yuen Woo-ping will choreograph all the action.