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 3.9.8 released

Releases | March 27, 2019 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

Hey!

I am happy to announce the 3.9.8 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3 (STS3).

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse 2019-03 release
  • quick text search allows you to switch between modal and non-modal mode
  • quick test search allows you to limit search scope to specific files
  • new tab for running boot apps that show live data from the apps environment
  • various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Spring Tools 4.1.2 released

Releases | February 22, 2019 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.1.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

  • (Spring Boot) new: live hover information for bean wirings now supports war-packaged boot apps running in a local server installation
  • (Spring Boot) new: live hover information for @Value annotations (#177)
  • (Spring Boot) new: bean symbols from XML config files now include exact location information
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: navigate to resource in live hovers for apps running on CF works again
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: search for symbols in project now happens on the server side to avoid no project-related symbols showing up on the client side before you start typing in a query
  • (Spring Boot) performance: improvement to further reduce the CPU load when checking processes for live hovers (#140

Spring Tools 4.1.1 released

Releases | January 25, 2019 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.1.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

  • (Spring Boot) easy navigation via symbols now available for regular Spring projects (not using Spring Boot)
  • (Spring Boot) live hover for beans and bean wirings now available for regular Spring projects (not using Spring Boot)
  • (Spring Boot) support for deprecated propertied added to property editors, including corresponding quick fixes
  • (Eclipse) boot dashboard now shows environment information including all properties and their values for running boot apps
  • (Eclipse) default distribution brings back support for local Tomcat servers and deploying war-packaged boot apps to those local servers

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.7 released

Releases | December 21, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.7 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3.

Highlights from this update release include:

  • updated to Eclipse 2018-12 release
  • added support for Buildship 3
  • added full-blown embedded properties editor for boot launch configs
  • boot dashboard now shows live request mappings and beans for reactive web boot apps, too
  • various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Enjoy!

Spring Tools 4.1.0 released

Releases | December 21, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.1.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

  • (Eclipse) updated to Eclipse 2018-12 release
  • (Eclipse) live hovers now combine JavaDoc and live information from running boot apps
  • (Eclipse) boot dashboard now shows live request mappings and beans for reactive web boot apps, too
  • (Spring Boot) initial content-assist support for Spring Data repository definitions
  • (CF Manifest) added support for new buildpacks attribute
  • various bug fixes

To download the distribution for Eclipse…

Spring Tools 4.0.1 released

Releases | November 01, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.0.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

  • (Eclipse) added support for Buildship 3.0
  • (Eclipse) added Tomcat server adapters back to default distribution
  • (Concourse) updated S3 params to latest changes
  • (Spring Boot suppport in general) various bug fixes

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Atom, please go visit:

Detailed changes can be found here: https…

Spring Tools 4 GA released

Releases | September 25, 2018 | ...

spring tools 4

After a decade of rolling out updates and improvements to the famous Spring Tool Suite and the Spring IDE components for Eclipse, a new era of Spring tooling starts today and we welcome you to the all-new Spring Tools 4. After an intensive period of public betas, we are happy to announce the first official release today.

Spring Tools 4 is a completely new set of tools for working with Spring projects in your favorite IDEs and editors. They are re-built from scratch with the goal in mind to provide the best support for implementing enterprise-grade applications based on Spring and Spring Boot…

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.6 released

Releases | September 20, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.6 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse 2018-09 release
  • added support for automatic and manual SSH tunneling to remote apps on CF for remote JMX access
  • various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.6 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.5 released

Releases | July 05, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.5 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Photon release, including support for JDK 9/10, performance improvements, and more.
  • Pivotal tc Server updated to 4.0.1
  • various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.5 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.6 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse 2018-09 in late September 2018.

Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.4 released

Releases | April 16, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.4 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Oxygen.3a release, including support for JDK 10
  • Pivotal tc Server updated to 4.0.0

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.4 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.5 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Photon (4.8.0) in late June 2018.

Enjoy!

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