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…
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.2.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.2.0. Highlights from this release include: We continue to ship distributions both on top of Eclipse 3.8 and Eclipse 4.2. While the 4.2 stream of Eclipse has improved a lot in the Eclipse Juno SR2 release, we still recommend using the 3.8-based version for optimal performance and stability. To download the distributions, please go visit: Updates from STS/GGTS 3.0.0 and 3.1.0 are available through the automatic…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the second milestone release 3.2.0.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 maintenance builds (not yet the final Eclipse Juno SR2 release). We still recommend to use the Eclipse-3.8-based versions of STS and GGTS for optimal performance. The 3.2.0 release is scheduled for early March 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Juno SR2 release. To download the distributions, please go visit: Enjoy!
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.2.0.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 SR1 from September 2012. As soon as the performance work on the Eclipse Juno SR2 release is ready to be consumed, we will update to that version. In the meantime, we recommend to use the STS and GGTS versions on top of Eclipse 3.8.1. The second milestone 3.2.0.M2 build is scheduled for late January 2013, followed by the 3.2.0 release in…
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.1.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.1.0. Highlights from this release include: Some of our users reported general performance issues with the new Eclipse Juno 4.2 platform that STS 3.0.0 shipped with. Most of these issues seem to be related to the underlying UI platform and its usage from various plugins and extensions. Since our goal is to provide the best possible user experience, we decided to provide two separate distributions for STS 3.1.0: one…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.1.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone include: Some of our users reported general performance issues with the new Eclipse Juno 4.2 platform that STS 3.0.0 ships with. Most of these issues seem to be related to the underlying UI platform and its usage from various plugins and extensions. Since our goal is to provide the best possible user experience, we decided to provide two separate distributions for STS 3.1.0.M1: one that is built on top of…
As an effect of this reorganization and the open-sourcing, there are fewer dependencies between these projects. Therefore you can consume them individually from the projects update sites, if you want to, and only a minimal set of dependencies will be pulled in. For example the Eclipse integration for VMware vFabric tc Server can be installed into a plain Eclipse JEE without the need to also install Spring IDE, Grails IDE, or other components.
You can always use the Dashboard (that comes with every project, like UAA) to easily add other projects to your existing installation as you might be…
Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone build of the upcoming Spring Tool Suite 3.0.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.0.0. Among the highlights of this milestone release: For more details about new and changed features, please refer to the New and Noteworthy for 3.0.0.M3 document. If you come across incompatibilities, migration problems, bugs, or any other suggestions, please provide feedback in the forum and file issues via JIRA. Downloads are available from the official STS download page, take a look at the section for Other Downloads. The…
Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the availability of the second milestone build of the upcoming SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0. This M2 build includes a number of significant changes and reflects the new structure of the tooling going forward. The main goal was to move away from one big monolithic tool towards smaller independent components. Therefore the different components of the SpringSource Tool Suite have been separated from each other and are now usable on an individual basis. All this allows us to start shipping different flavours of our tooling projects. Beginning with…
