Spring IDE 2.0 M4 released at Spring IDE Blog

Spring IDE 2.0 M4 released

Published by Christian Dupuis 2 years, 10 months ago in Journal. Tags: javaconfig, m4, mylar.

We are proud to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring IDE 2.0 has been released. Read the announcement in the Spring Framework support forum.

The milestone is available immediately from our developer update site at http://springide.org/updatesite_dev. Please take some time for testing and provide feedback on any errors, bugs or problems you might find. Many thanks to all that already provided feedback and bug reports. The feedback is really valuable for us.

M4 will be the last milestone before we go RC1 around end of May and - hopefully - final close to SpringOne. The release candidate 1 will have support for Spring JavaConfig and a preliminary integration with the Mylar Eclipse plug-in.

Stay tuned …

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1 lipman May 18th, 2007 at 13:04 Quote

Hi, The site.xml file within the update site was not updated with M4 information.
2 Christian Dupuis May 18th, 2007 at 13:21 Quote

I just loaded the site.xml in my web browser and I can see the M4 entry. Furthermore we have already hundreds of M4 installations out there. Could it be that you are sitting behind a caching proxy?
3 wyn May 21st, 2007 at 6:53 Quote

Nice tools!
4 Gunnar Wagenknecht May 22nd, 2007 at 10:05 Quote

It would be nice if you could split the feature into smaller one. I’m including Spring IDE in our internal Eclipse distribution but I don’t want to include AJDT and the AOP stuff which depends on AJDT and the Web Flow plug-ins.
5 Torsten May 22nd, 2007 at 16:38 Quote

It would be nice if you could split the feature into smaller one.

We thought about this but our automatic build doesn’t support this (we are leveraging PDE’s build environment here).

I’m including Spring IDE in our internal Eclipse distribution but I don’t want to include AJDT and the AOP stuff which depends on AJDT and the Web Flow plug-ins.

If no AJDT or Web Flow OSGi bundles are available then the depending plugins within Spring IDE will be silently disabled. So this shouldn’t be an issue.
6 Gunnar Wagenknecht May 22nd, 2007 at 16:53 Quote

We thought about this but our automatic build doesn’t support this (we are leveraging PDE’s build environment here).

Really? AFAIK PDE Build builds whatever it gets. :)

If no AJDT or Web Flow OSGi bundles are available then the depending plugins within Spring IDE will be silently disabled. So this shouldn’t be an issue.

Yes, but then the plug-ins should be marked optional in the feature. Otherwise, if the plug-ins aren’t loaded the feature is marked with errors and the Update Manager wants to resolve those which causes some grief to end users not familiar with the UM issues. ;)
7 Hartmut Obendorf May 29th, 2007 at 15:35 Quote

Hi, I’m just curious who else misses a great functionality from 1.3 in the 2.0 releases (or is there perhaps another way?):

Spring IDE 1.3 used to have a “filter” on top of the Beans Explorer. Using that filter, it was extremely easy to find beans by name, and compare different find “sets” just by typing into the filter field. Couldn’t you re-enable that filter (make it optional if you must :) - searching just isn’t as fast and intuitive!

PS: Thanks for increasing the plug-in’s stability - since downloading M4 (18.5.), everything has been running stable!
8 Bruno May 30th, 2007 at 19:01 Quote

This might be a dumb question, but I could not find an answer elsewhere.

Is Spring IDE 2.0 expected to function on Eclipse 3.2.2? Or will it only work on Eclipse 3.3?

We put on hold rolling out our internal Eclipse 3.2.2 until Spring IDE 2.0 is released for GA since we are already using Spring 2.0 as our standard. It would be dumb of us if we were waiting for an incompatible version.

Thanks.
9 Christian Dupuis May 30th, 2007 at 19:14 Quote

Is Spring IDE 2.0 expected to function on Eclipse 3.2.2? Or will it only work on Eclipse 3.3?

There are no dumb questions, only bad documentation …

Spring IDE will certainly work with Eclipse 3.2.2. It is very likely that will work on Eclipse 3.3 as well (currently it does and we are constantly working to keep it compatible).

Please note that you need Java SE 5 to run Spring IDE.
10 Torsten May 31st, 2007 at 1:09 Quote

Spring IDE 1.3 used to have a “filter” on top of the Beans Explorer. Using that filter, it was extremely easy to find beans by name, and compare different find “sets” just by typing into the filter field. Couldn’t you re-enable that filter (make it optional if you must :) - searching just isn’t as fast and intuitive!

This filter is very expensive for complex models because it eagerly fetches the whole model prior applying the filter. This was the reason why this filter is only available for certain tree viewers in Eclipse 3.2.

Additionally after migrating Spring IDE’s beans view to Eclipse 3.2’s Common Navigator Framework using the FilteredTree widget instead of the plain Tree widget wasn’t an option anymore. The CommonNavigator viewer has to be used as-is.

Maybe with Eclipse 3.3 we will see some support of the FilteredTree widget in the Common Navigator Framework.
11 Christian Dupuis Jun 4th, 2007 at 23:52 Quote

Yes, but then the plug-ins should be marked optional in the feature. Otherwise, if the plug-ins aren’t loaded the feature is marked with errors and the Update Manager wants to resolve those which causes some grief to end users not familiar with the UM issues. ;)

Spring IDE 2.0 final will be split into several features in order to overcome any dependency problems. E.g. the AOP, Web Flow and Mylar support will be available as optional features.
12 Anonymous Jun 5th, 2007 at 16:53 Quote

Where can I download Spring IDE?
13 zhaoping Jun 9th, 2007 at 11:02 Quote

Where can I download Spring IDE?
14 Heiko Jun 10th, 2007 at 13:42 Quote

I have just struggled to find the right point from where Spring IDE can be downloaded. There’s a link in the second paragraph that will lead you to the update site (http://springide.org/uddatesite_dev). Download this onto your workstation and then unzip.
15 Torsten Jun 11th, 2007 at 11:13 Quote

I have just struggled to find the right point from where Spring IDE can be downloaded.

We will add the corresponding links to the blog site.

Download this onto your workstation and then unzip.

Don’t do this!!! Please follow the instructions given here or here in the project’s wiki.
From the infos of the above mentioned update site:

Don’t unzip them into your Eclipse installation directory, as this will potentially destroy your Eclipse installation! Instead use Eclipse’s Update Manager and define one of the zip archives as “Archived Site”.

If you have any issues regarding the installation or usage of Spring IDE please use the corresponding support forum.

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