Genuitec, LLC,the leading provider of the popular MyEclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, announced today the immediate availability of the initial milestone release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 6.5.

Among noted enhancements is the upgrade of MyEclipse Spring tools, which provides the most up-to-date technology as well as the integration of the latest Spring framework 2.5 libraries.

Also in the milestone release, JSF developers can expect to see a dramatic improvement to the JSF/Facelet visual page designer with all new support for coding and WYSIWYG preview of custom components.

Finally, by customer demand, MyEclipse 6.5 includes Java portlet support. The new portlet creation tools seamlessly integrate with the MyEclipse visual web design tools and application server connectors to provide a rapid portlet development experience.

“We recognize that our customers expect the very highest service from the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench product line,” said Wayne Parrott, vice president of development for Genuitec. “With the MyEclipse 6.5 release, we continue our tradition of providing the Java enterprise developer community with the most recent application technologies and productivity tools available.”

MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 6.5 milestone-1 release will include the following enhancements over previous editions:

• Spring framework 2.5 and tools upgrade
• JAX-WS 2.1 web services
• support for JSR-168 portlets
• improved JSF and Facelet visual page design and coding features
• a new web.xml editor
• much more!

This milestone release is available for a free trial. The general availability release of MyEclipse 6.5 is slated for June, 2008 and will include Maven support among other usability enhancements.