Today marks a big day for Eclipse and for everybody involved with the Eclipse ecosystem: Congratulations to the Eclipse folks for releasing Eclipse 3.5 aka Galileo. You can read more about the release at http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/. I encourage everybody to download Eclipse 3.5 today and try it out. Since SpringSource is strongly committed to Eclipse and we are building our SpringSource Tool Suite on top of the Eclipse technology stack, I'm excited to report that STS can be installed and used with 3.5. Here are some instructions to get started: Update: The instructions in this post are…

Dear Spring community, we are pleased to announce that we released a second milestone of upcoming SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0. Here are the highlights of new features in 2.1.0.M2: More details about features is available from the New & Noteworthy. Remember, STS is free. Get your copy at http://www.springsource.com/products/sts. Christian

It was April 27th around 2:39pm, when Rod announced in his SpringOne Europe opening keynote: Reto Meier, with our partner namics, took a picture as proof of that very moment and published it on flickr.com. Also the audience at SpringOne seemed to be enthusiastic about the announcement and as a consequence the word was spread to outside of the conference soon after. So here we are, since Rod promised it, we can't get out of it… ;-) Today we are proud to deliver on Rod's promise and can announce that the first free versions of STS have been published and can be downloaded from the product page…

In an earlier blog, Ben introduced Bundlor, the concepts behind it and how to use it from the command line as well as from within ANT and Maven. In this post I'll show how Bundlor can be used in an Eclipse environment. When developing OSGi-based applications, some users don't want to spend time constantly updating their MANIFEST.MF, but instead want to focus on actual business logic in their application components: in such a scenario the Bundlor Eclipse integration will ensure that the MANIFEST.MF file reflects actual dependencies expressed by code artifacts in the project and removes the need…

Dear Spring community, I'm pleased to announce that our EPL-licensed Spring IDE and dm Server Tools have been updated. Both releases are mainly addressing bug fixes and minor improvements. Additionally the dm Server Tools got some new features like Bundle and PAR export as well as tailing of application trace files. You can install both from our new consolidated Eclipse update site available from http://www.springsource.org/update/e3.4 (please note that this update site does not work with a web browser). Cheers, Christian Dupuis Lead, Spring IDE & SpringSource Tool Suite

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the 2.0 version of our SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). You can find the press release here. For the 2.0 iteration we focused on the two major feature areas that we identified based on the great feedback from our customer base and community: provide the best possible environment for Spring-based application development and provide tools to develop enterprise applications based on OSGi and the SpringSource dm Server. I'd like to use this blog to introduce some of the new Spring development tools of STS 2.0. The new OSGi development…

Yesterday we published a final release candidate build of the upcoming SpringSource Tool Suite version 2.0. The RC build is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from the STS product page. STS 2.0 is equipped with new productivity tools for developing Spring applications, like Quick Fixes, as-you-type validation and correction, project and bean creation wizards as well as a Visual Spring Configuration Editor and more. Stay tuned for more information on these new features. Additionally STS 2.0 comes with tools for OSGi-based application development that experienced as well as new adopters…

Dear Spring Community, I'm pleased to announce that we have released Spring IDE 2.2.1. This version is mainly a bugfix and maintenance release but has some significant user level changes as well. Get more information at the Spring IDE blog Watch out for more tooling related announcements from SpringOne during the upcoming week.