In addition to the SeamGen tool that is provided with Seam, the JBoss Tools project provides additional functionality within the Eclipse environment, allowing developers to be more productive when developing Web 2.0 style applications. In this appendix, we'll provide the following information:
An overview of JBoss Tools
Installing JBoss Tools
Creating Seam projects
Managing Seam projects
JBoss Tools is a set of plugins for the Eclipse IDE that forms the basis of the JBoss Developer Studio. JBoss Developer Studio is available to subscription customers. However, any or all of the individual plugins can be installed into Eclipse to aid rapid application development.
Version 3.x of JBoss Tools works with Eclipse 3.4, whereas version 2.x of the JBoss Tools suite works with Eclipse 3.3.
At present, the following tools are available.