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<p>Dear midPoint community,</p>
<p> MidPoint may have started as a humble identity management tool,
yet it has evolved into identity <i>platform</i>. MidPoint is
comprehensive, flexible and customizable. MidPoint configurations
can be quite complex and it may be a challenge to manage them.
Therefore we have prepared an integrated development environment
(IDE) to make this work easier: <a
href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/studio/">MidPoint
Studio</a>. We have just released its “beta” version.<span
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<p> The idea of midPoint IDE is not a new one. There was an
unofficial midPoint plugin for Eclipse IDE for quite some time.
However, this plugin originated as a side project of one of
midPoint developers. It was an experiment that somehow escaped the
laboratory. The Eclipse-based IDE became quite popular. Yet, to
code was quite “experimental” and it was difficult to maintain.
Moreover, midPoint development migrated away from Eclipse IDE
towards a more convenient IntelliJ IDEA. The Eclipse plugin was
never officially and it started to fall apart. Yet the community
wanted (and needed) an IDE tool. Therefore it was high time to do
something about it.</p>
<p> New IDE was based on newer midPoint concepts. It was also based
on a different IDE platform. We have chosen IntelliJ platform over
Eclipse. IntelliJ is much more convenient and polished platform.
Similarly to Eclipse, <a
href="https://www.jetbrains.com/opensource/idea/">IntelliJ
platform is open source</a>. We have used IntelliJ as a
foundation for <a
href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/studio/">MidPoint
Studio</a>, an integrated development environment to develop and
maintain midPoint configurations.</p>
<p> We have just released a beta-quality version of MidPoint Studio
(4.2-150). The Studio is pretty much feature-complete at this
point. There may be some bugs and glitches, which is also the
reason that we are releasing it to the community. We would like to
gather community feedback before our first official release. If
you are interested, please navigate to the <a
href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/studio/">Studio page at
docs.evolveum.com</a> and give it a try. Please share your
feedback on <a
href="https://docs.evolveum.com/community/mailing-lists/">midPoint
mailing list</a>. We would like to hear whether you like the
Studio, if it works for you and what can be improved. You are
welcome to report bugs <a
href="https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Creating+a+Bug+Report">using
the usual procedure</a>. Just make sure you set the component
field to “Studio” and include Studio version number in your
report.</p>
<p> We plan to release production-quality MidPoint Studio after we
gather the community feedback. The plan is to maintain and
officially support the Studio starting with that release. MidPoint
Studio will become the official IDE for midPoint.</p>
<p>(Reposted from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evolveum.com/midpoint-studio-beta-blog/">Evolveum
blog</a>)</p>
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Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com</pre>
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