Spring Web Flow 2 Support on the Way

For those of you who want to use Spring IDE with Spring Web Flow 2 I have good news today: The support for Web Flow 2 is now available as part of the Spring IDE 2.1 development snapshots from the nightly update site at http://springide.org/updatesite-nightly. If you are Web Flow user please give this a try and report in JIRA if something is not working as it should.

The nightly build also contains a Mylyn Integration feature that is compatible with Eclipse Ganymede and the Mylyn 3.0 release.

Update: fixed the link to the update site. Please note that the link is intended to be used with the Eclipse update manager and not with your browser as Amazon S3 is not very browser friendly.

Spring IDE 2.0.6 available

This is just a short notice that Spring IDE 2.0.6 has been released today. 2.0.6 is bug fix only version and does not contain any new features.

Point your Eclipse update manager to http://springide.org/updatesite or http://dist.springframework.org/release/IDE. You can use S3Browse to browse the Amanzon S3 bucket for archived update site zips.

Spring IDE 2.0.6 will be the last version that supports Mylyn 2.3. The port to Mylyn 3.0 APIs has already been finished and will be available in the next few days. This migration is required to make installing Spring IDE into the Ganymede packages possible. If you want to use 2.0.6 with Ganymede please don’t install the Mylyn integration.

Model Centric Design and Development for Spring

Skyway SoftwareSpringSource will be hosting a webinar on May 28, 2008 12pm EDT (9am PDT, 5pm GMT) on how to develop Spring-based applications using Skyway Builder.

 

This session will describe the integration of Skyway Software and SpringSource and how developers can use Skyway Builder to modify/customize existing Spring applications quickly and accurately. After a brief architectural review of Skyway?s and Spring?s tools, attendees will learn how to access Spring apps in Skyway Builder (using Eclipse), apply Skyway facets/natures, and autowire for Spring to redeploy the app to the same (or new) infrastructure. #

Skyway Builder is a very interesting product with its model centric design and development approach. And it fits nicely into the landscape of development tools for Spring, including Spring IDE and STS, as you will be able to see in the webinar.

You can register for this free webinar at the SpringSource website.

SpringOne coming up

SpringOne Registration This year’s SpringOne in Antwerp is coming along very soon! It is only three weeks to go.

I will be giving a talk titled Enterprise Development Tools for Spring (abstract will be fixed soon abstract is now correct) in which I’ll introduce the different Spring-related development tools that SpringSource offers.

Furthermore I will explain where we draw the line between our open-source Spring IDE , the SpringSource Application Platform Tools and the SpringSource Tool Suite; I will outline what differentiates each product and how they work seamlessly together with Eclipse Mylyn and other Eclipse-based tools to offer the best Spring development environment.

Hope to see you in Antwerp.