Dear Spring Community, We're pleased to announce the new release 2.6.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). Some highlights from this release: 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.

Dear Spring Community, We're pleased to announce that we just released a service refresh for 2.5.2 as well as the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). The service refresh for STS 2.5.2 includes: Some highlights from the new 2.6.0.M2 milestone: More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the 2.6.0.M2 New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

The SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) provides the New Spring Template Project wizard. Uses this wizard, the user can see a number of project templates, choose one and let the wizard create a complete project, based on that template description. While this gives you an easy way to create new projects, you might wanna define your own custom project templates for your team or your organization. And we will show you how to do this in the following. So the first step is to create a new and empty plugin project. You don't need Java code in there, so don't create this as a Java project. Just create a…