JBoss Developer Studio is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 10.4x.
It is a set of Eclipse-based plugins for JBoss related technology such as Seam, Hibernate/JPA, JSF, EJB3, JBossESB, JBossWS, Portal etc.
JBoss Tools are a set of Eclipse plugins to which JBoss Developer Studio adds: In March 2007, Exadel and Red Hat announced a strategic partnership that added Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat's integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
[4] On April 2022, Red Hat announced that CodeReady Studio reached its end of life.
JBoss Developer Studio included brand new tools for Seam.
They provided wizards for creating new Seam projects, validation tools, expression language code completion, testing tools, and wizards for generating entity objects.
It also offered ability to managing workflow processes as well as human tasks and interactions between them.
JBoss Developer Studio included support for the most widely used Business rules engine in the market, Drools.
JBoss Developer Studio included tools to create and deploy portlets that are compatible with JSR 186/286.
It also included tools to easily create SEAM/JSF Portlets and deploy the same on JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform.
JBoss Developer Studio’s Visual Page Editor could render RichFaces components.
Hibernate Tools included capabilities like reverse engineering and code generation from existing databases, Hibernate mapping and configuration editors, entity model views, dynamic query editors, and more.
JBoss Developer Studio included jBPM tooling for defining Seam page flows.