"Although Red Hat's JBoss Developer Studio is a 1.0 release, it is anything but a first stab or untested solution. Through a partnership, which was formed in March of this year, with professional services provider Exadel, Red Hat has built its development solution utilizing Exadel's already-established Studio Pro and RichFaces/Ajax4jsf component libraries, all of which the company contributed to Red Hat's JBoss.org community earlier this year. Since being released in beta this August, Red Hat has seen 100,000 downloads, making this product a well-tested 1.0 release."
- Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst, Current Analysis
Includes both tooling and runtime components. No need to cobble one together.
All components, like JBoss Seam and Eclipse seam tooling work well together as well as across other components, like Hibernate, JBoss AS, etc.
All JBoss Developer Studio plugins are compatible with each other and runtime components and their dependencies are compatible with each other.
You don't have to worry about updating parts that may not work with the rest of the environment.
JBoss Enterprise Platform Contains the versions of JBoss AS, Hibernate, JBoss Seam, and other components that Red Hat supports in production for five years. Similarly JBoss SOA Platform contains certified versions of JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform includes certified versions of JBoss Portal.
JBoss Developer Studio Portfolio Edition includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux development tools, and Red Hat Network for development purposes. This enables developers both to build applications directly for the industry-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as to take advantage of features like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5's built in virtualization for development environments.