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I think the Spring IDE use the internal eclipse key assistant
maybe better.

Torsten created at ticket for that. Thanks for pointing it out.

I’m happy to leave feedback - where is the best place to post it, here or in the forum ?

You can leave your feedback right here.

I don’t have to imagine…Unfortunately, I do use Spring without it. My day job is a .NET project and we’re using Spring.NET. Sure wish there was an add-in for VisualStudio that provided the same stuff for Spring.NET. Oh well…maybe one day I’ll have some time and create one.

Nevertheless, thanks again for such a cool plugin for Eclipse. At least my after-hours Spring work gets to enjoy Spring IDE.

thanks in advance.

are you referring to a custom XSD namespace and corresponding NamespaceHandler?

Spring IDE provides extension points to plug in support for this kind of third party namespaces. We provide hooks for the Beans XML Editor (content assist, navigation, …) and for the Beans Core Model which drives the Spring or Beans Explorer. Furthermore we will add support for custom validation rules.

This isn’t documented until now, as the API is still moving. But you can expect a blog post about that in the coming days as I’m currently drafting one.

In the meantime you can have a look at the Web Flow XML Editor plug in as this uses the extension points provided in Spring IDE.

Hope that helps.

I will definitely take a look to the web flow editor while I wait for your next post :-)

thanks for the good work.

where can I find the updatesite for 2.0 M3?

The milestone builds are available from our development updatesite. Further information on how to install and the features of M3 are documented on the blog and forum.

However, we encountered some difficulties with M3, with the most important being the stability issue (although better than M2, we still use 1.3.6 for daily use) - perhaps, there are some memory “leaks” as bean completion will often result in memory shortage and eclipse crashing (with 3GB, and -Xmx1536M -Xms512M).

Personally, I also really miss the bean search field in the Explorer view - it was MUCH more convenient to use as a filter. I find the integration in the search menu too cumbersome. Perhaps you’d consider reimplementing a search filter? Would make me happy.

And finally, although marking missing beans usually works just fine, we encountered issues with referring to beans defined in projects the active project depends on - Spring IDE sometimes does not update the status of the depending bean for a long time. (Example: Bean A of project A (A.A) depends on B.B which depends on B.C - and the config set of B doesn’t include B.C. Fixing the config set does not remove the propagated error.)

However, we encountered some difficulties with M3, with the most important being the stability issue (although better than M2, we still use 1.3.6 for daily use) - perhaps, there are some memory “leaks” as bean completion will often result in memory shortage and eclipse crashing (with 3GB, and -Xmx1536M -Xms512M).

I reopened a similar ticket about OutOfMemory problems.

Can you please re-check with one of the latest nightly builds? I’ve addressed a couple of issues with AOP reference model parsing.

If it is in the longer range, does it still make sense to use the 1.3.x Spring IDE plugin for Eclipse when using Spring 2.0?

I don’t ask idly, we are upgrading the Eclipse package that our company uses internally from 3.1.1 to 3.2.2 and I’d like to include the Spring IDE plugin if it makes sense to do so at this time.

I was wondering how far we are from a GA of the 2.0 version. I know that there can be no promises, but perhaps you could give us an idea of whether it is in the 1-month or 6-month range?

We are heavily pushing to get the 2.0 GA out of the door very close to SpringOne 2007 which is only one and a half month from now. We will release M4 in a couple of days, followed by a RC1 mid of May.

At the moment there are no serious issues left open, therefore I don’t expect any delays at this point. But as you said: We don’t promise anything.

Hope that helps.

I have downloaded Spring IDE 2.0 RC1 version …

There is no RC1 version available right now. We accidentally added the RC1 version to zip archive name. That has been changed to M4 again.

… I am not sure, which to install either this or M4.

Please install the latest pre-M4 build from the nightly update site.

Like everybody else around here, I think you’ve done a great job, but I’ve found that Spring IDE uses a hotkey, Alt Shift S which replaces a common Eclipse hotkey for popping up the Eclipse source menu. I use this hotkey quite frequently for dealing with source and very quickly accessing the menu. Could you please reassign the function that uses this to another hotkey? If it was my own custom binding, I’d suck it up and remap it, but it’s a common Eclipse binding and I don’t think it’s too much to ask? I’m eagerly awaiting the publishing to the stable update site. Thanks guys.

Could you please reassign the function that uses this to another hotkey?

I wasn’t aware that Alt-Shift-S is already used in a standard Eclipse installation. I opened a ticket so that we can fix that for Spring IDE 2.0 final.

I will try to find a free key combination. Any suggestions?

Would that do? And thank you kindly, for responding, I really appreciate it :)

Otherwise i really enjoyed using the 1.x Spring IDE. It runs just fine on RAD 7, and really helps to make your work easier.

If I increase the memory in the eclipse.ini to 1536M it still takes for ages and then crashes.

Have you tried increasing the PermGen space? Try setting -XX:MaxPermSize=128m.