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 3.9.3 released

Releases | March 22, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.3 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Oxygen.3 release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
  • Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.2.9
  • updated to work with Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.3 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.4 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen.3a (4.7.3a) in late April 2018.

Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.2 released

Engineering | December 22, 2017 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.2 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Oxygen.2 release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
  • includes updated support for JDK9 and JUnit 5
  • allows to install Spring Tools 4 Public Beta features as early-access add-ons

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.2 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.3 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen.3 (4.7.3) in late March 2018.

Enjoy!

Spring Tools 4 - public beta released

Releases | December 04, 2017 | ...

spring tools 4

Beginning today, we enter a new chapter in the tooling landscape for Spring and the development of enterprise applications built on top of the de-facto standard, Spring Boot. By unveiling the public beta of the next generation of our Spring tooling, we allow developers around the globe to get a preview of what is coming next to improve their developer experience around Spring and Spring Boot.

Spring Aware

smart code completion

The all-new Spring Tools 4 analyze your projects on the fly, understand the Spring constructs inside, and provide easy and super quick navigation to all your Spring elements. Finding a…

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.1 released

Engineering | October 12, 2017 | ...

I am happy to announce the 3.9.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Oxygen.1a release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
  • includes support for JDK9 and JUnit 5 (https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7.1a/)
  • updated Spring Cloud CLI integration (switch to on-demand install)
  • experimental boot dashboard extension to inspect beans of running boot apps
  • refactoring support to convert application.properties to application.yml
  • a number of important bug fixes (organize imports shortcut is back, for example)

To download the distributions, please go visit: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.1 New & Noteworthy

How to get STS/Eclipse running on macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Engineering | September 21, 2017 | ...

The new version of macOS called High Sierra (10.13) will soon go GA and we expect many of our STS/Eclipse users and Spring developers will upgrade their machines sooner than later. In case you have your system running with an English locale, you are fine and everything will be good.

If you are running your system with a different language configured, you will see all menu items of Eclipse or STS being disabled after the upgrade to macOS High Sierra.

The good news is: you can quickly get this fixed without waiting for an update of Eclipse or STS. Go into the Eclipse.app or STS.app package, move…

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.0 released

Releases | July 10, 2017 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Oxygen release (Oxygen New and Noteworthy)
  • improved support for editing cloud foundry manifest files
  • improved support for using Spring Cloud CLI services (incl. log streaming to console view)

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.0 New & Noteworthy.

There is also an early access version of JDT available that includes support for Java9. You can install that from the Eclipse Marketplace. More details can be found in the Java9 section of the Eclipse Oxygen New and Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.1 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen.1 (4.7.1) in early October 2017.

Enjoy!

New beta versions of Concourse pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support released for Visual Studio Code

Releases | May 18, 2017 | ...

Back in February 2017 we started to introduce new IDE-agnostic tooling support with our first beta version of the Cloud Foundry manifest editing support. As promised, we continue this journey with an improved version of the Cloud Foundry manifest editing support for Visual Studio Code and brand-new support for editing Concourse task and pipeline definitions - also as an extension to Visual Studio Code. This marks our second step towards implementing tooling in an IDE-agnostic way, adopting the language server protocol from Visual Studio Code.

We also continue our work on the Eclipse-based…

Spring Tool Suite 3.8.4 released

Releases | April 03, 2017 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.4 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Neon.3
  • completely revamped wizard for direct access to start.spring.io
  • boot dashboard: support for local Spring Cloud CLI services
  • boot dashboard: support for routes when deploying apps to CF
  • fixed font rendering on main STS dashboard
  • added support for Buildship 2.0
  • improved reliability for boot dashboard when showing status of running boot apps
  • issue tracking moved to GitHub Issues

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.8.4 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.0 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen 4.7 in early July 2017.

Enjoy!

Cloud Foundry Manifest Editor Beta released for Visual Studio Code

Releases | February 03, 2017 | ...

As part of our activities to support developers around the globe building applications with Spring and deploying those apps to Cloud Foundry and PCF, we are proud to announce our first beta version of the Cloud Foundry Manifest editing support for Visual Studio Code (on macOS, Linux x64, and Windows).

Why Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and open-source code editor that runs on macOS, Linux x64, and Windows. It is based on an interesting architecture with regards to extensibility. Support for languages in Visual Studio Code gets implemented as so called “language…

Spring Tool Suite 3.8.3 released

Releases | December 22, 2016 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.3 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

STS 3.8.3 focuses on adopting Eclipse Neon.2 and fixing existing issues. The list of changes include:

  • Updated to Eclipse Neon.2
  • Added support for one-time passcode for Cloud Foundry targets in the Spring Boot Dashboard
  • Added support for WAR packaging of Spring Boot apps when deploying them to CF in the Spring Boot Dashboard
  • Added support for health-check in Cloud Foundry manifest files
  • Fixed a number of most-reported errors from the automated error reporting
  • and more...

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.8.3 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

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