Chapter 1. About the Red Hat Developer Studio

Red Hat Developer Studio is a result of strategic partnership of Exadel and Red Hat to open sourcing the main Exadel's product.

Red Hat Developer Studio, earlier known as Exadel Studio Pro, now is completely available in open source.

1.1. The Leading Open Source IDE for Building Rich Applications

Red Hat Developer Studio is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE. It extends the Eclipse platform to be an advanced enterprise-level Web application development environment for leveraging open source, JEE and AJAX technologies. By combining visual and source-oriented development approaches with support for multiple open source technologies, including JSF, Hibernate, Seam, MyFaces, Spring and others.

Red Hat Developer Studio enables developers to work easily with many different technologies all within one environment. Red Hat Developer Studio provides an extensive collection of specialized wizards, editors and views all of which have been constantly expanding to meet the needs of enterprise developers to keep pace with rapidly changing business environments and technologies.

1.2. Other relevant resources on the topic

RHDS on JBoss: Red Hat Developer Studio

Forum: JBoss Forum

Download: RHDS Download