Built on top of the Eclipse software development kit, the preview version is dubbed a Milestone 2 release. It will have most of the new functionality to be featured in the general release of MyEclipse 5.0, due in August. MyEclipse 5.0 offers users multiple ways to build Web applications, with support for technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), JavaServer Pages, and Struts.

A highlight of version 5.0 is inclusion of Matisse4MyEclipse, an interface builder based on the NetBeans Matisse technology.

"We're taking the Eclipse plug-in environment and we're adopting the best-of-breed solutions regardless of where they come from. Matisse happens to come from NetBeans," said Maher Masri, president of Genuitec.

Also in version 5.0 is a framework for rapidly developing Web services through a series of wizards and interfaces. The framework is based on the XFire (http://xfire.codehaus.org/) SOAP framework.

AJAX extensions in the product enable developers to more easily build rich, dynamic Web applications, Genuitec said. Also, the Struts 1.2.X framework, with Tiles technology, is supported in version 5.0. Tiles is a component of Struts for building user interfaces, Masri said.