Martin Lippert

Martin Lippert

Martin leads the Spring Tools projects at VMware to provide the best developer tools out there for Spring. In addition to that he works on next generation developer tooling and innovative new architectures for cloud-based developer tooling. Before joining the Spring family, Martin co-founded it-agile, a leading consulting and development company focused on agile software development.

Recent Blog posts by Martin Lippert

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.5.1 released

Engineering | May 06, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce a minor maintenance release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.5.1 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.5.1. This maintenance release includes a number of bug fixes as well as a few updates, including: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR2 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: The next version 3.6.0 is scheduled to arrive in July 2014, shortly after the Eclipse Luna (4.4) release. The first milestone build is scheduled to arrive in late May 2014. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.5.0 released

Releases | April 02, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.5.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.5.0. Highlights from this release include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR2 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: The next version 3.6.0 is scheduled to arrive in July 2014, shortly after the Eclipse Luna (4.4) release. The first milestone build is scheduled to arrive in mid May 2014. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.5.0.M2 released

Releases | February 05, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the second milestone release 3.5.0.M2 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone build include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: The 3.5.0 release is scheduled for early March 2014 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR2 release. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.5.0.M1 released

Releases | December 12, 2013 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.5.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone build include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: 3.5.0.M2 is scheduled for early Febuary 2014, followed by the 3.5.0 release in early March 2014 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR2 release. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.4.0 released

Releases | October 08, 2013 | ...
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.4.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.4.0. Highlights from this release include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: The next version 3.5.0 is scheduled to arrive in March 2014, shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) release. The first milestone build is scheduled to arrive in late November 2013. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.4.0.M1 released

Releases | September 12, 2013 | ...
Dear Spring community, I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.4.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone build include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 RC builds. The 3.4.0. release is scheduled for early October 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR1 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: Enjoy!

JavaConfig support in the Spring Tool Suite

Engineering | July 18, 2013 | ...
Spring applications that use JavaConfig instead of XML become more and more popular. Today we would like to show you the new features in the latest Spring Tool Suite 3.3.0 release that makes it easier for you to program Spring applications using annotations and JavaConfig instead of XML. Project configuration Let's assume you implement a web application based on Spring and JavaConfig. A common practice would be to have a base @Configuration class where you define the common base Spring configuration in your application. That might look like this: In addition to that you might have an web…

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0 released

Releases | July 10, 2013 | ...
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.3.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.3.0. Highlights from this release include: We continue to ship distributions on top of the latest Eclipse release (Eclipse Kelper 4.3) as well as Eclipse Juno 3.8. While the 3.8-based version ships with all the components from Eclipse Juno, only the 4.3-based version ships on top of the just released Eclipse Kepler 4.3 version and is therefore the only distribution that comes with all the latest fixes and…

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M2 released

Releases | June 05, 2013 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the second milestone release 3.3.0.M2 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone build include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR2 release as well as on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler 4.3.0.RC2 release candidate. For optimal performance and stability we still recommend the distribution that is based on Eclipse 3.8.2. The 3.3.0 release is scheduled for July 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler release. To download the distributions, please go visit: Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.3.0.M1 released

Releases | April 23, 2013 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.3.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone build include: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno SR2 release. For optimal performance and stability we still recommend the distribution that is based on Eclipse 3.8.2. The second milestone 3.3.0.M2 build is scheduled for early June 2013, followed by the 3.3.0 release in early July 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler release. To download the distributions, please go visit: Enjoy!

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