h1. Petals Studio 1.2
Here are the new and noteworthy features of Petals Studio 1.2.
h2. Service Unit Wizard
The creation wizard for service units now proposes usage categories.
These categories replace the former _use cases_ that were in fact very specific to the Petals terminology.
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An important progress was made to help users in selecting operations to consume.
In the wizards to create a service consumer, there is now a helper to select the service operation to invoke.
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In the case where the service does not have a WSDL, the Petals target component will be found and native operations will be proposed.
If no operation is found, it will have to be typed in manually.
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Besides, the wizard page to select a service to invoke has changed.
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The consumption dialog now filters invocable services.
It means that when you select a service to consume, only those that are technically invocable are shown.
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This preference can be changed to display all the services.
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In the same dialog, target components are now visible.
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h2. EIP
There is now a graphical editor to build EIP chains in Petals Studio.
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Such chains can be created through an _EIP croquis_.
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This croquis can either be exported as a Petals service assembly, or as a set of Petals Maven projects.
The service assembly export is useful for demonstrations and tests.
The Petals project export is useful for continuous integration using the Petals Maven plug-in.
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The usual service unit wizard for EIP still exists but is now deprecated.
However, for those who would stick to this wizard, be noticed that its user interface was a little bit improved.
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h2. Utilities
Petals Studio provides some utility wizards related to Web services and WSDL:
* Create a Web service client.
* Create a Java interface from a WSDL definition.
* Generate a WSDL from a Java interface.
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There is another utility to associate a Petals component with a shared library.
It is a very handy alternative to the Petals Maven plug-in.
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h2. Miscellaneous
The EJB wizard was simplified.
Besides, the studio now embeds Apache CXF. You do not have to download it and configure the _WSDL preferences_ anymore.
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The File Transfer wizard was reviewed to be more explicit and more intuitive.
In provider mode...
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... and in consumer mode.
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