Developer tools

Twice a year, Red Hat distributes new versions of compilers,run times, open source databases, and/ web tools providing developers with access to the latest, stable versions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Software Collections 3.2 beta adds: Node.js 10, PHP 7.2, Varnish Cache 6.0, MySQL 8.0, NGINX 1.14, Git 2.18 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat is one of the major contributors to the Eclipse Che community. Learn how Red Hat is participating at EclipseCon Europe.

Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 3.6 is now available to run an OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster on your laptop for developing cloud- and container-based applications.

Red Hat Developer Studio 12.9 and the community edition, JBoss Tools 4.9.0 for Eclipse Photon 2018-09, are now available. This article highlights some of the new features in both JBoss Tools and Eclipse Photon, covering WildFly, Spring Boot, Camel, Maven, and many Java-related improvements—including full Java 10 support.

Red Hat OpenShift supports two workflows for building container images for applications: the source workflow and the binary workflow. This article compares the two workflows, describes how to use each of them, and explains which workflow to use depending on your circumstances.

This article shows how set up Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat OpenShift and then use SQL Server to store data for a simple ASP.NET Core application running in a container deployed on OpenShift that manages a list of contacts. It also shows how to manage SQL Server within OpenShift using SQL Operation Studio.

The new Technology Reports feature in Red Hat Application Migration Toolkit (RHAMT) 4.1.0 lets you quickly analyze hundreds of applications to see which technologies they use. In addition, the size, number of libraries, and story point totals of each application are displayed, allowing you to quickly determine each application’s type from a single report.

Kestrel, the web server in the .NET Core, supports replacing the network layer. This article benchmarks Kestrel’s networking layer with a Linux-specific implementation to achieve measurable performance gains compared to the out-the-box implementation.

The latest release of the Fuse Tooling includes some new capabilities around the Camel REST DSL and re-using SOAP services in RESTful ways.

New releases: Red Hat Developer Studio 12 and Container Development Kit 3.5. Learn about the new features and updates to other developer tools for Windows, macOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Read about the latest features in Red Hat Developer Studio 12.0, JBoss Tools 4.6.0, and Eclipse 4.8 Photon including Java 10 support. Developer Studio is a bundled installer. JBoss Tools can be added to your existing Eclipse 4.8 installation.

Apache Camel URI completion for Java DSL is now available in Visual Studio Code and Eclipse Desktop. This article shows it in action in these two IDEs.

Clang tools and newer versions of GCC can be quite helpful for better warnings and error messages during C/C++ development. This article shows how you can easily install the latest supported Clang 5 and GCC 7 compilers using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also provides tips for working with software collections.

In this DevNation Live session, we’ll show you how feature toggles can be bundled inside your software development process.

Containers are the new way of deploying applications. They are an efficient way to portably deploy applications across clouds and different OSes.This article looks at what OpenShift brings for .NET Core specifically and how OpenShift provides a DevOps platform on top of Kubernetes for building and deploying apps.

At the summer 2018 ISO C++ standards committee meeting, proposals for new features for C++2a were coming quickly from the Evolution Working Group. Red Hatters covered core, library, and parallelism/concurrency. Read about the new C++ core language features that were accepted at this meeting.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7's new iPaaS feature, Fuse Ignite, is a platform on which citizen integrators and developers can coexist, collaborate, and contribute to an end-to-end integration. See how EDI analysts can use it to focus on their business mappings and transformations.

Eclipse Che 6.6 is here, and since the release of Che 6.0, the community has added a number of new capabilities. In this article, learn about new features and how to get started using Che with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and Docker.

Red Hat Application Migration Toolkit provides utilities for easing the process of application migration and modernization. You can analyze an existing code base using a CLI, web-based interface, or inside Eclipse to identify what might need to change in order to migrate to a newer platform

Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) provides a single-node Red Hat OpenShift cluster that can assist with containerized application development. This environment is like a production OpenShift environment that works on a single user's computer. Follow these steps to install CDK 3.4 on Fedora 28.

To detect common programming errors, GCC 8 contains a number of new warnings and enhancements to existing checkers to help find non-obvious bugs in C and C++ code. This article focuses on those that deal with inadvertent string truncation and discusses some of the approaches to avoiding the underlying problems.