Release: AWS Toolkit for Eclipse v2.0
This release of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse adds several new features such as support for multiple AWS accounts, remote debugging, and the ability to view and edit AWS resources from inside the Eclipse environment.
Details
New Features
| Feature |
Description |
| AWS Explorer |
The AWS Explorer presents a tree view of your AWS resources such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, and Amazon RDS. With
the AWS Explorer you can view and edit resources within these services. For more information, go to
The AWS Explorer. |
| Multiple AWS Accounts Supported |
You can now manage multiple accounts with the AWS Toolkit and easily switch between them. The AWS Explorer automatically updates
to reflect whatever account is active. With multiple accounts, you can maintain a clean separation between AWS resouces used for development and those
used for production.
For more information, go to
Setting Up the AWS Toolkit for
Eclipse. |
| Remote Debugging for Elastic Beanstalk |
This version of the AWS Toolkit enhances Elastic Beanstalk support by enabling remote debugging for web applications deployed
using Elastic Beanstalk.
For more information, go to
Remote Debugging.
|
| Editors for Amazon S3, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS |
Through the AWS Explorer, you can access editors for Amazon S3, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS. The editors enable you to create and
delete buckets, notification topics and subscriptions, and queues.
For more information, go to
Viewing and Editing S3 Buckets,
Viewing and Adding SNS
Entries, and
Build and Run the Amazon Simple
Queue Service Sample. |
| Query Editor for Amazon SimpleDB |
Through the AWS Explorer, you can view your SimpleDB domains, run queries against them, and then edit the query results to update
data in the domains.
For more information, go to
Viewing and Editing a SimpleDB
Domain.
|
| RDS Database Support |
Through the AWS Explorer, you can connect to database instances running on Amazon RDS.
For more information, go to
Connecting to Amazon Relational Database
Service (RDS).
|
| Enhanced SSH Support |
This new version enhances support for connecting to EC2 instances. When connecting to an EC2 instance, you can now choose which
user to connect as (Open Shell As...). Also, for Windows users, the AWS Toolkit now automatically converts your EC2 SSH keys into the PuTTY key
format.
For more information, go to
Listing and Connecting to Server
Instances. |
Known Issues
| Issue |
Description |
| Cannot Sign in to Travel Log from Eclipse |
On the Windows operating system, you are not able to sign into the Travel Log sample application from the Eclipse built-in
browser. To work around this issue, in Eclipse, go to Windows | Preferences | General | Browser, and set Eclipse to Use external web
browser. Then select an external web browser from the list provided.
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Release: AWS Toolkit for Eclipse v2.0
