April Updates to the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse– Azure SDK 2.3, Tomcat 8, New Zulu versions, and more!

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Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., has now published the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse (by Microsoft Open Technologies) - April 2014 release. This update accompanies the release of Azure SDK 2.3, which is a pre-requisite. You will be offered the option to install it automatically when you create the first project after installing the toolkit.

This release includes multiple enhancements since the February 2014 release, including support for new versions of application servers (Tomcat 8), JDKs (Azul Zulu v1.7 update 51 and v1.6 update 47), support for larger, bigger memory Azure instances (A8 and A9), improved handling of SSL and HTTPS, and in-place upgrading of deployed applications.

Have a look at the msopentech.com Blog post for more details.