Dear Spring Community,

 

We're pleased to announce the update release 2.9.1 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

 

This update improves the Spring Integration graphical editing experience and fixes a performance problem with the content-assist in the Java editor when working inside a Spring project.

 

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

I am happy to announce the first release of the Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse 1.0.

This release features:

• deploying, updating, starting, stopping apps directly from your workspace
• supports Java/Web, Java/Spring, Groovy/Grails and Scala/Lift apps
• service creating and binding (directly at deploy time or later)
• instance scaling and statistics
• remote file browsing directly integrated
• full debugging support for Micro Cloud Foundry
• improved incremental update performance
• integrated into Eclipse and STS

And, last but not least, the project is now open-source under the EPL and available from GitHub: https://github.com/SpringSource/eclipse-integration-cloudfoundry

You can install it into STS (2.9.0 or higher required) using the STS Dashboard or directly into a plain Eclipse JEE package (Indigo recommended) using the Eclipse Marketplace.

Attention: if you have a previous version of the Cloud Foundry tooling installed (the old milestone or nightly builds, having the old STS version…

Wanna use the SpringSource Tool Suite on the latest Eclipse Juno (4.2) milestone builds? Here you go: 

How to install

• Download and install the latest: Eclipse Juno JEE milestone build
• Download the bookmarks.xml and import that to your list of update sites (Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Update Sites -> Import).
• Go to "Install New Software" and select SpringSource Tool Suite for Eclipse 4.2: http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/nightly/e4.2.
• Select the components you would like to use and install.
• Restart and use STS on Eclipse 4.2.

The necessary dependencies for STS are all available from the composite update site: http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/composite/e4.2, if you wanna add something manually.

Managing update sites yourself

Here are the individual update sites from which you can install STS, AJDT and Groovy-Eclipse for Juno (4.2):

• http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/nightly/e4.2
• http://dist.springsource.org/snapshot/GRECLIPSE/e4.2/
• http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/37/dev/update/

Known limitations

Since the Eclipse Juno distribution is based on the Eclipse 4.x stream, you will notice quite some changes on the UI when starting the latest Eclipse Juno builds. And we haven't yet adapted to all changes, therefore the Maven support of STS (for example) is not yet working. If you observe anything else, please let us know.

Feedback

This is an early access version of STS that is continually updated by our CI servers. If you observe problems running STS on top of your Eclipse Juno (4.2) M5 (or later) installation, please let us know and report issues to: https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS. Since we are planning towards a distribution on top of Eclipse Juno for STS 3.0, we would be very happy to hear your opinion about that and gather feedback as early as possible.

Outlook

We are planning towards an STS 3.0 release right after the Eclipse Juno release in July 2012, providing ready-to-go-distributions of STS based on Eclipse Juno.

Dear Spring Community,

 

We're pleased to announce the new release 2.9.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). Some highlights from this release:

• ships now with just released Eclipse Indigo SR2 (3.7.2)
• updated to tc Server 2.6.3, Spring Roo 1.2.1, and Grails 2.0.1
• now includes an AspectJ 1.7.0 based AJDT
• support for Spring Integration 2.1
• support for Grails 2.0
• improved Gradle integration

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

 

Looking ahead, STS 3.0.0 is planned for July 2012 and will be based on Eclipse Juno (4.2).

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Highlights from this milestone towards 2.9.0:

• General - update to tc Server 2.6.3
• Spring - update to Spring Roo 1.2.0
• Spring - support for new Spring Roo packaging options
• Grails - Grails 2.0.0 is now the default version installed from the extensions page
• Groovy - Groovy 1.8 is now the default version installed from the extensions page
• Gradle - initial Gradle editing support (more to follow)

More details can be found in the New and Noteworthy for 2.9.0.M2 document. Detailed installation instructions are also available, please look at the installation from the milestone update sites.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads".

The release of 2.9.0 is planned for early March 2012 and will be based on Eclipse Indigo 3.7 SR2.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the first milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Highlights from this milestone towards 2.9.0:

• General - update to tc Server 2.6.2
• Spring - support for Spring Integration 2.1
• Grails - Grails 2.0 supported
• Grails - content assist improvements for 'where' queries and 'named' queries
• Grails - DSL support for unit/integration tests
• Grails - improved Grails aware refactoring
• Groovy - Groovy 1.8.4 support
• Groovy - improvements to parser recovery (leading to better code assist)
• Groovy - ability to suppress DGMs in code assist proposals
• Groovy - content assist for named argument constructor calls
• Groovy - quick fixes and quick assists added (e.g. add unimplemented methods)
• Gradle - new 'tasks' view

More details can be found in the New and Noteworthy for 2.9.0.M1 document. Detailed installation instructions are also available, please look at the installation from the milestone update sites.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads".

2.9.0.M2 is planned for late January 2012, followed by the 2.9.0 GA in early March 2012.

The SpringSource Tool Suite team is pleased to announce the new release 2.8.1 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

STS 2.8.1 is now compatible with the new Maven Integration as well as the old one. So updating your existing STS 2.7 or 2.8 version to STS 2.8.1 doesn't force you to also update the Maven Integration. Instead you can switch to the new Maven integration whenever you want - and even switch back to the old integration, if the new one doesn't work out for you. We automate this up- and downgrading of the Maven Integration as much as possible with two new items on the Dashboard. Please find more details in the New & Noteworthy and the updated m2e FAQ forum post.

The ready-to-use packages contain the new m2e 1.0 version, but you can easily switch them back to m2eclipse 0.12 using the Dashboard items, if you like.

Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

 

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new milestone release M5 of the Cloud Foundry Integration for the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

This milestone release includes support for debugging applications in Cloud Foundry (for local clouds and the upcoming version of Micro Cloud Foundry). You can now start your apps in your local or micro cloud in debug mode and your Eclipse/STS debugger will automatically be connected to your app running inside of Cloud Foundry. You can set breakpoints, inspect variables, evaluate expressions, step through the app - everything you know from he good…

Dear Spring Community,

 

We're pleased to announce the new release 2.8.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). Some highlights from this release:

• ships on top of Eclipse Indigo SR1
• includes full IDE support for Java 7 (coming with the Eclipse 3.7.1 update)
• support for Spring 3.1 bean profiles, including validation and navigation
• support for Spring 3.1 c-namespace including quick-fixes, validation and content-assist
• improved constructor-arg validation and quick-fixes
• updated Eclipse Maven integration (m2e 1.0.100), including migration assistance
• support for Groovy 1.8.2
• support for Grails 2.0.0.M2

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

 

If you wanna upgrade an existing STS installation, please also take a look at this blog post on how to upgrade the m2e support properly.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce a minor update 2.7.2 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

The update provides:

• support for vFabric tc Server 2.6
• support for Spring Roo 1.2.0.M1
• update to Mylyn 3.6.2

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page. Enjoy!