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Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Development Suite

1.1. About Red Hat Development Suite
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Red Hat Development Suite combines some of the best Red Hat development tools - such as Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, the Red Hat Container Development Kit, and OpenJDK - into a single, integrated developer experience. Each of these tools is impressive on its own but when integrated together, they create one of the most effective, powerful, and efficient development environments for all kinds of developers.

Important: You must have the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite subscription to download and run Red Hat Development Suite on Windows. This subscription is available by signing up for the Red Hat Developer Program here: http://developers.redhat.com/. It is important to note that this subscription is unsupported and only intended for development purposes, may not address known security vulnerabilities, and must not be used in production environments.

Red Hat Development Suite 1.1 includes products such as Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10.1 and Red Hat Container Development Kit 2.2, as well as some dependencies for each of these products. One or more of the products that Red Hat Development Suite installs may have a separate Red Hat subscription. Development support for any of the installed products would require an active Red Hat subscription for that product.

The following is a list of the components installed by the Red Hat Development Suite installer and their dependencies:

  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10.1.0.GA

    • OpenJDK 8.0 Build 101

  • Red Hat CDK 2.2

    • Vagrant 1.8.1
    • Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.26
    • Cygwin 2.6.0

1.2. New Features and Enhancements
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The following is a list of new features and enhancements to Red Hat Development Suite 1.1:

New Features:

  • The Red Hat Development Suite installer now provides simple uninstaller in the form of a Powershell script located in the uninstall sub-folder within the installation folder. Run the Powershell script to quickly and easily remove all the components installed. The uninstaller does not change the detected components.
  • Red Hat Development Suite 1.1 also includes a lightweight (only 40Mb) online installer which does not include all the installed software. This online installer downloads all the required packages during the installation process. This installer is a Technology Preview feature for Red Hat Development Suite 1.1.
  • If you are working behind a proxy, the installer will not work by default without additional configuration. Add an environment variable named HTTPS_PROXY and add the URL to your proxy with the appropriate port. If the installer was running, restart it to detect the new environment variables.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:

  • Installer checks if the installed VirtualBox is from the required 5.0.x stream. (JBDS-4036)
  • The installer now installs a newer version of Cygwin (version 2.6.0). (JBDS-4034)
  • The installer now installs a newer version of OC Origin (version 1.2.0). (JBDS-4003)
  • The online installer uses the OpenJDK MSI installer from the Red Hat Developers Download Manager page. (JBDS-3999)
  • The installer now installs an updated version of Vagrant (1.8.1) and uses VirtualBox 5.0.26, as required by the new Vagrant version. (JBDS-3997)
  • Red Hat Development Suite now includes a Powershell script to uninstall the product. (JBDS-3959)
  • After a corrupt download, the Red Hat Development Suite installation checks the downloaded files against a SHA256 checksum and allows the download process to be restarted if the downloaded files are found to be corrupted. (JBDS-3901)
  • The installer now correctly detects an existing Cygwin installation that includes SSH and FTP. (JBDS-3862)
  • The installer now runs the Vagrant, VirtualBox, and OpenJDK MSIs with a suppressed user interface (JBDS-3820)
  • The installer now checks if the destination folder for the installation exists before starting installation instead of failing if the folder does not exist. (JBDS-3817)
  • The installer now ensures that the target folder path is within the accepted length for an installation path. (JBDS-3816)
  • A simple static page appears when starting the installer while an angular bootstrap occurs. This avoids a blank screen during this process. (JBDS-3651)
  • The progress bars displayed during the installation now accurately reflect the progress for each task. (JBDS-3618)

1.3. Known Issues
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  • JBDS-3983 - Proxy Support: Development Suite Installer should work behind proxy.
  • JBDS-4043 - DevSuite should check if Visual C++ 2010 redistributable is installed
  • JBDS-4033 - Cannot add VirtualBox box files on Windows during installation of CDK via devstuite bundle installer

  • Known issues related to non-ASCII folder names are listed below. The devsuite installer does not provide any validation for this in the current release:

    • JBDS-3828 - Virtualbox fails to install when user has non-ascii characters in the name
    • JBDS-3825 - Cygwin installs into a different folder when some non-ASCII characters are present in folder name
    • JBDS-3826 - JBDS installation fails with folder name containing non-standard characters

1.4. Next Steps
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Try the Red Hat Development Suite installer using the following instructions: Red Hat Development Suite 1.1 Installation Guide

If you have already installed Red Hat Development Suite, start using it with these instructions: Getting Started with Container and Cloud-based Development.

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