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:

• ready-to-use full Java8 support (STS as well as GGTS)
• updated to Eclipse Kepler SR2 (4.3.2)
• new advanced content-assist for Spring Boot projects
• Usability enhancements to live Beans Graph for Spring Boot
• Cloud Foundry integration now supports Spring Boot
• Major improvements in the Gradle Integration for Eclipse (including major performance improvements)
• initial support for Spring Boot CLI apps
• Grails updated to 2.3.7
• tc Server updated to 2.9.5.SR1
• Dashboard improvements (including feeds, shortcuts, and notifications)

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR2 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.5.0 New & Noteworthy.

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!

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:

• improved new dashboard
• improved Jar-type content assist for Spring Boot
• initial support for Spring Groovy CLI apps
• major performance improvements for Gradle tooling (refresh dependencies)
• updated to Grails 2.3.5

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.5.0.M2 New & Noteworthy.

The 3.5.0 release is scheduled for early March 2014 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR2 release.

Enjoy!

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:

• improved new dashboard (news feeds are back)
• new advanced content-assist for Spring Boot projects
• support for new client side getting started guides
• support for Groovy 2.2
• updated to Grails 2.3.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.4

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.5.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

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!

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:

• import new Getting Started guides directly into the IDE
• new wizard to start with Spring Boot directly from within the IDE
• automatic detection for JavaConfig classes
• basic support for Groovy in Spring IDE
• updated to Eclipse Kepler SR1
• updated to Grails 2.2.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.3

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.4.0 New & Noteworthy.

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!

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:

• import new Getting Started guides directly into the IDE
• new wizard to start with Spring Boot directly from within the IDE
• automatic detection for JavaConfig classes
• basic support for Groovy in Spring IDE
• updated to Eclipse Kepler SR1 (RC1)
• updated to Grails 2.2.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.3

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:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.4.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

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:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan 
class…

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:

• Eclipse Kepler Release updates (including Mylyn, EGit, m2e, m2e-wtp)
• updated bundled tc Server to 2.9.2 and bundled Spring Roo to 1.2.4
• ready for Spring 4
• support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects (including navigation support for @Autowired)
• new and unified "New Spring Project" wizard
• additional performance improvements for working with Spring projects
• brand new instant and lightning fast quick search for your workspace
• GGTS now includes grails 2.2.3

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…

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:

• 4.x-based distributions now on Eclipse Kepler 4.3 (RC2)
• ready for Spring Framework 4
• new and unified "New Spring Project" wizard
• improved support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects
• Groovy-Eclipse now has a smaller install footprint and uses less memory
• GGTS now includes Grails 2.2.2

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:

• Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.3.0.M2 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

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:

• Spring IDE: improved support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects
• Groovy-Eclipse: now supports customizable editor templates
• Groovy-Eclipse: navigation and hovers in binary (compiled) groovy files
• Grails-IDE: preliminary support for current builds of Grails 2.3

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:

• Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.3.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

The latest release of the Spring Tool Suite (3.2.0) contains a large number of performance improvements in many different areas. We are not only adopting the latest improvements from the Eclipse Juno SR2 maintenance release (which fixes a large number of performance issues with the new Eclipse 4 platform UI), we also worked on the performance of many of the STS internals, specifically targeting Java editing and build times for Spring projects.

To demonstrate the improvements, here is a quick screencast showing STS 3.1.0 and 3.2.0 side-by-side:

There is still more to do and we will continue to work on these areas for the STS 3.3.0 release, scheduled to arrive in July 2013. If you want to know more details, watch for further improvements, submit additional information, and/or report specific performance or memory issues, please watch/use this JIRA ticket: https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-3054…