STS on Eclipse 3.6

Christian Dupuis

Last week the Eclipse Foundation released the much anticipated next version of Eclipse. You can download Eclipse 3.6 aka Helios from SpringSource's member distribution page. Also check out the New & Noteworthy for this release.

The Tools Team at SpringSource has been busy updating our developer tools to support Eclipse 3.6 and while we haven't released a new version of SpringSource Tool Suite that builds on and bundles 3.6 yet, users can now install STS on top of Eclipse 3.6.

Detailed steps to install STS from our nightly update sites can be found in the installation instructions. Please carefully follow the outlined steps in the "Installing from the Nightly Snapshot Update Site" section starting on page 9.

If you encounter issues during the installation please feel free to post to the community support forums.

If all goes as planned we'll release STS 2.3.3.M2 including the usual installers next week.

Enjoy…

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15 responses


  1. Are you planning provide STS from Eclipse Marketplace?


  2. Thank you, this article helped me making STS work with Eclipse 3.6. So far so good, looking forward for more improvements especially with the Grails integration.


  3. The bookmarks.xml for 3.6 contains an error. It points to http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/nightly/e3.5 instead of 'e3.6'

    Besides this I have problems connecting to both the 'Snapshots' and the 'Snapshots, Dependencies' sites, run into 'Read timed out' errors.


  4. Hi, I have downloaded and installed STS 2.3.3 M1. But with that release we need to install Google AppEngine plugins as an extension. I have tried to install GAE plugins more than hundred of times and posted problems at several blog and forum. Still I am not able to use GAE plugins with Spring Tool Suite 2.3.3 M1. Cause it cannot download 2 jar files from my conuntry given bellow

    http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/2.1.0.M1/eclipse/plugin/plugins/com.google.appengine.eclipse.sdkbundle.1.3.4_1.3.4.v201005191217.jar

    http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/2.1.0.M1/eclipse/plugin/plugins/com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle.2.1.0_2.1.0.m1-201005191217.jar

    Also this two links have no resume support. After downloading about 75% it cannot download more.

    So it is my request if it is possible then please inlude GAE plugins with one of next STS release.
    I am specially intereste to use STS Roo for Google App Engeine application development.


  5. It's nearly the end of the week? Have things not gone so well? Looking forward to taking M2 for a drive when finished with our 'not gone so well' week ;)


  6. Hi, why must be disable standard eclipse repository? And why not aviable installer STS only for installed Eclipse? It's so strange all eclipse based project give link on full build with eclipse installers but without not or have many steps instructions for install on raw eclipse.


  7. @Manuel, yes, we will provide STS from the Eclipse Marketplace. We are currently working through some technical hurdles.

    @Dormand, we will update the GPE location for STS 2.3.3.M2. By then you should be able to install the plugins without any issue. If this problem continues please let me know and we'll provide a download link for a zipped update site archive.

    @Neale, no, all has been going well. Due to travel and meetings we needed to post-pone the STS and Roo M2 release by a few days. New target is early this week. Should be anytime now.

    @Maksim, you can download fully integrated installers for STS from the download site. With the installers you don't install anything from an update site. That should help you getting started in no time. Let me know if that is what you are looking for.

    Christian


  8. I guess it hasn't been released yet (STS 2.3.3 with an installer) . am I right ?
    – Yonatan


  9. in my opinion, version 3.0 was better


  10. I'm not about that, I talked about a full install without Eclipse. Install STS when Eclipse is already installed, for example from the distribution repositories, or downloaded from the site.


  11. Hi my installation was successful.

    Just have a quick config question.

    In the previous release of the STS i.e. for eclipse 3.5, the dashboard which loads on startup could be disabled. This option appears to be missing.

    Any idea how to disable it?


  12. Hi,

    I am trying to install STS in eclipse 3.6 with the instructions outlined in the "Installing from the Nightly Snapshot Update Site" without success. I am having the following error:

    Could not find http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/nightly/e3.6

    Could you help me with this issue?

    Thanks,
    Josue


  13. http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/dependencies/e3.5/bookmarks.xml is returning 403 forbidden error. Could you look into it?


  14. Hi, The installation instructions talk about disabling all other plugins before installing STS, do these need to remain disabled post-installation or can I re-enable them?

    Thanks.


  15. Hi,

    I have downloaded and installed STS 2.3.3 M2.

    I was wondering when the RELEASE version come out. Have you an approximate date ?

    Thanks.

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