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 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…

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: To download the distributions, please go visit: 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: To download the distributions, please go visit: 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: To download the distributions, please go visit: STS 3.9.5 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Photon (4.8.0) in late June 2018. Enjoy!

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: To download the distributions, please go visit: 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: To download the distributions, please go visit: 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…

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…

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: To download the distributions, please go visit: 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!

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