Archive for October, 2006

Spring User Group Germany founded

Published by Christian Dupuis 3 years, 4 months ago 1 Comment

The German Spring User Group has been founded. The goal is to exchange information, experiences and opinions about the Spring framework and other related technologies. The Use Group is open for everyone at http://groups.google.com/group/sugg.

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Add Spring Configs from jar archives

Published by Christian Dupuis 3 years, 5 months ago in Journal. 1 Comment

Yes, we are listening to you guys; at least Torsten does: There is one prominent feature request that I constantly got after talking about Spring IDE. Especially after my talk at this year’s SpringOne in Antwerp, back in June (can you remember ;-):

Why does Spring IDE not allow to define a Spring configuration file as BeansConfig that is packed in a Jar archive?

Before jumping into the adventure of implementing the Spring 2.0 features support for Spring IDE, Torsten decided to fix ticket #159. With the upcoming version 1.3.6 of Spring IDE you can add Spring configuration files to your Spring IDE configuration that are packaged in a Jar archive. For example the xfire.xml that defines the Spring beans for XFire web service framework.

After adding the Jar to your Spring Project’s classpath (the Jar has to be part of the project, e.g. stored in “WEB-INF/lib/”, and not only available on the classpath like the JDK’s “rt.jar”!!!) you should be able to find a Jar entry in the Spring Beans Config Selection dialog.

You can then select the desired xml file and add that to your Spring IDE configuration.

You can now see the beans defined in that file in the Beans View. Certainly all Spring IDE features are supported on packaged config files, like creating and printing the dependency graph and validation within a BeansConfigSet.

Let us know if this is working for you (as requested)….