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Red Hat Development Suite 1.2

Highlighted features in Red Hat Development Suite 1.2

Misha Husnain Ali

Supriya Bharadwaj

Red Hat Developer Group Documentation Team

Abstract

This document lists and briefly describes new and improved features of Red Hat Development Suite 1.2.

Chapter 1. About Red Hat Development Suite
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Red Hat Development Suite combines 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. Combining these powerful tools into a single integrated development environment results in Red Hat Development Suite - one of the most effective, powerful, and efficient development environments for all kinds of developers.

Note

You must have the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite subscription to download and run Red Hat Development Suite. Sign up for this subscription here: http://developers.redhat.com/. This subscription is unsupported, may not address known security vulnerabilities, and is only intended for development purposes and therefore must not be used in production environments.

Red Hat Development Suite 1.2 includes products such as Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10.2 and Red Hat Container Development Kit 2.3, as well as some dependencies for each of these products. One or more of the products that Red Hat Development Suite installs may require a separate Red Hat subscription. Development support for any of the installed products requires a relevant and active Red Hat subscription.

The Red Hat Development Suite 1.2 installer installs the following components and their dependencies:

  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10.2.0.GA

    • OpenJDK 8.0 Build 111

  • Red Hat Container Development Kit 2.3

    • Vagrant 1.8.1
    • Oracle VirtualBox 5.0.26
    • Cygwin 2.6.0

Chapter 2. Installation Options
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Red Hat Development Suite 1.2 includes the following installation options:

  • New macOS-only Installers (Experimental and Unsupported)

    • This is a new Red Hat Development Suite installer for developers using macOS.
    • A Bundled Installer that includes all the required components for installation.
    • An Online Installer that is a 40 Mb download and downloads the required components during the installation process.

  • Windows-only Installers (Supported)

    • A Bundled Installer that includes all the required components for installation.
    • An Online Installer that is a 40 Mb download and downloads the required components during the installation process.

Chapter 3. Features and Enhancements
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3.1. Windows Installers
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The lightweight Online Installer is now fully supported in Red Hat Development Suite 1.2. The online installer downloads the required components when it runs while the Bundled Installer includes all the required components.

Enhancements:

  • JBDS-4111 - The uninstaller script now cleans up shortcuts for JBoss Developer Studio as well as the installed files.
  • JBDS-4047 - The uninstaller now cleans up the PATH variables.
  • JBDS-3628 and JBDS-4080 - The online installer caches the downloaded files to reuse them if the installation fails.

3.2. macOS Installers
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Red Hat Development Suite 1.2 introduces experimental and unsupported versions of the Online and Bundled Installers for macOS.

Warning

The macOS online and bundled installers are experimental and not supported by Red Hat. As a result, they must not be used in production environments.

  • The installers include or download all components required to install Development Suite in macOS.
  • The installers include isupport installation for Vagrant and VirtualBox.
  • The installers can detect whether any of the required components are already installed and whether the installed version is supported for Development Suite.
  • Choose any combination of components to install from within the installers.
  • After the installation completes, the installers can launch Development Suite.

Chapter 4. Known Issues
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Windows Installers:

  • JBDS-3983 - Proxy Support: Development Suite Installer should work behind proxy.
  • JBDS-4009 - Installation fails with "Error: Command failed: vagrant box remove cdkv2 -f" when a previous installation went bad
  • 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
  • JBDS-4159 - On Windows, the installer need to choose the correct CDK version depending if Hyper-V is activated or not

  • The Red Hat Development Suite 1.2 Installer does not validate non-ASCII folder names in the current release. Known issues for non-ASCII folder names are:

    • 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

macOS Installers:

  • JBDS-4208 - Detection for installed components always counts cygwin as detected on macOS
  • JBDS-4207 - Request for administrator credentials should say DevSuite Installer not osascript
  • JBDS-4209 - Request for Administrator credentials should be shown once

Chapter 5. Next Steps
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Try the Red Hat Development Suite installer using the following instructions: Red Hat Development Suite 1.2 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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