The latest release of the Spring Tool Suite (3.2.0) contains a large number of performance improvements in many different areas. We are not only adopting the latest improvements from the Eclipse Juno SR2 maintenance release (which fixes a large number of performance issues with the new Eclipse 4 platform UI), we also worked on the Read more…

This week we've released version 0.4 of our JavaScript focused code editor. You can read about the background of Scripted here. The full release notes for 0.4 are here but in this article I'll call out a few of the more interesting changes. Tooltips Scripted uses an inferencing engine to build an understanding of your Read more…

So What Does It Take to Operate at China Scale? The challenges inherent to building enterprise applications that meet China-scale demand are unparalleled. One exemplary Chinese organization using Spring heavily to solve very unique challenges is the Alibaba group. Alibaba is itself an online auction site, like eBay in the west. The Alibaba group in Read more…

One of the major goals of Scripted Editor 0.4 is extensibility. We recently released 0.3 and we are making fast progress towards 0.4. Part of the extensibility story is simple declarative extensions to editor functionality (the other part is a powerful plugin model, which will be described in a future blog post). In this blog post, I will introduce custom code completions and templates for the Scripted editor.

In October the first public version of the Scripted code editor was made available, a browser based editor using a Node.js local server, with a focus on providing a great JavaScript editing experience. Today the first update is available, version 0.3. A full set of Release Notes about the latest features is available here. Here Read more…

Scripted, a JavaScript editor from VMWare was announced on this blog last month. In this article we'll take a look under the hood at Scripted's Dependency Analysis Engine. But before diving into the details, lets motivate why we need it. Main Motivation: Cross-file Content Assist To provide a great JavaScript editing experience, Scripted needs to Read more…

The first version of the Scripted code editor has been released this week on github: https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted. Although Scripted is a general purpose code editor, the initial focus is building a great JavaScript editing experience. Scripted itself is built entirely in JavaScript and HTML/CSS. It is a browser-based editor that runs locally on a developer's machine Read more…

Introduction We are proud to announce that the newest major release of our Eclipse-based developer tooling is now available. This is a major release not only in terms new features but because of other serious changes like componentization, open-sourcing and the fact that for the first time we are making multiple distributions available, each tailored Read more…

Introduction Over the last year a number of significant changes have been made to the infrastructure and processes we use to keep the Spring family of projects running smoothly. You may have seen individual announcements about some of these as they happened, while others may have slipped under your radar. I'll recap these changes below. Read more…

Just days ago, SpringSource Tool Suite™ (STS) 2.9.1 was released. Besides many new features, it provides several features that are especially exciting for Spring Integration users. First of all, the latest STS release adds support for Spring Integration 2.1 and improves the visualization capabilities for Spring Integration flows. STS supports now all recently added Spring Read more…