Genuitec announced on Monday the general release of its MyEclipse 5.5 Enterprise Workbench IDE, which is based on the Eclipse platform. MyEclipse features a variety of value-added capabilities on top of the base Eclipse platform. "We add no less than 2,000 features on top of the Eclipse baseline," said Maher Masri, president and co-founder of Genuitec. Featured in the latest update is conformity with the Java En Genuitec announced on Monday the general release of its MyEclipse 5.5 Enterprise Workbench IDE, which is based on the Eclipse platform.MyEclipse features a variety of value-added capabilities on top of the base Eclipse platform. “We add no less than 2,000 features on top of the Eclipse baseline,” said Maher Masri, president and co-founder of Genuitec.Featured in the latest update is conformity with the Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 5 specification, including Enterprise JavaBeans 3, for persisting of Java objects to databases. Also included is Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) support, providing a model to bind data elements to an application without having to be vendor-specific. JavaServer Faces backing, for Web development, is included as well. Support of Facelets allows for quicker writing of user interfaces.Also featured is the MyEclipse Derby database. “The database gives you an out-ot-the-box ability to write applications without having to go out of your way to find a different [database],” Masri said. Future plans call for embedding Web and application servers in MyEclipse.Genuitec had offered a preliminary, “milestone” release of version 5.5 in January that did not feature Java EE 5 capabilities but focused on SNAPs (Simple Nonintegrated Applications) tools for development tasks. MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench IDE is available now and cosgts $29.95 for an annual subscription to the Standard edition or $49.95 for the Professional edition, which adds capabilities such as Unified Modeling Language support and development of Swing-based interfaces. Technology Industry