Using Cloud Foundry from STS
By now you probably heard about Cloud Foundry, the open PaaS from VMware that was announced yesterday; if not make sure to check out the recording of the webcast. Eventually you have already read earlier blog posts introducing the Spring support for Cloud Foundry, the add-on for Spring Roo and the Grails plug-in. With this Read more…
STS on Eclipse 3.6
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 Read more…
Using SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3.M1 with Roo and GWT
By now, most of you probably have heard about the announcements at Google I/O around Spring, Roo, STS and GWT. Ben and Rod covered this in their respective blog posts recently. If you missed the keynote I strongly recommend to watch the recording on YouTube to catch up (the relevant section starts at 1:09:00 into Read more…
Update on Groovy and Grails Tools
Since Andy's announcement of the early alpha version of a new and improved Groovy Eclipse plugin, we have received very good feedback from early adopters out of the Groovy and Grails community. Judging from comments and twitter buzz there really is a big interest in good quality Groovy language support on the Eclipse platform. Andy Read more…
SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 Now Available
I'm happy to announce that we just released the final version of SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0; the first GA version with major enhancements since making STS freely available. The release comes with brand-new installers for all supported platforms and bundles latest versions of SpringSource tc and dm Server as well as Spring Roo. Additionally you Read more…
Installing STS into Eclipse 3.5
Today marks a big day for Eclipse and for everybody involved with the Eclipse ecosystem: Congratulations to the Eclipse folks for releasing Eclipse 3.5 aka Galileo. You can read more about the release at http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/. I encourage everybody to download Eclipse 3.5 today and try it out. Since SpringSource is strongly committed to Eclipse and Read more…
SpringSource Tool Suite now free
It was April 27th around 2:39pm, when Rod announced in his SpringOne Europe opening keynote: “STS will be free!" Reto Meier, with our partner namics, took a picture as proof of that very moment and published it on flickr.com. Also the audience at SpringOne seemed to be enthusiastic about the announcement and as a consequence Read more…
Using Bundlor in Eclipse
In an earlier blog, Ben introduced Bundlor, the concepts behind it and how to use it from the command line as well as from within ANT and Maven. In this post I'll show how Bundlor can be used in an Eclipse environment. When developing OSGi-based applications, some users don't want to spend time constantly updating Read more…
Announcing SpringSource Tool Suite 2.0
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the 2.0 version of our SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). You can find the press release here. For the 2.0 iteration we focused on the two major feature areas that we identified based on the great feedback from our customer base and community: provide the best Read more…
OSGi Development Tools in STS 2.0
Yesterday we published a final release candidate build of the upcoming SpringSource Tool Suite version 2.0. The RC build is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from the STS product page. STS 2.0 is equipped with new productivity tools for developing Spring applications, like Quick Fixes, as-you-type validation and correction, project and bean Read more…
