In his opening keynote at SpringOne, Rod announced - among Spring Roo and SpringSource tc Server GA - that we will make SpringSource Tool Suite available for free!
In case you wonder why you - as a Spring IDE user - should care about that, make sure that you check out STS and the extended features that it offers above and beyond Spring IDE.
The free downloads will be available by Thursday, May 7th. Stay tuned for more details. I hope that you are as excited as I: you can now get the best and most productive IDE environment for Spring-based application development for free.
From this point on you can follow me on twitter (#STS) to stay on top of all the new features and development around Spring-, OSGi- and Groovy/Grails-relating tooling.
That’s really great! What are the plans for first-class Groovy/Grails support?
I agree with Tareq, Groovy/Grails is why I’m reading this post. I’m ready to get grails going, but the Eclipse support is not good enough to push on my Eclipse using co-workers.
This really is great news! Thanks for opening this up a little more.
Tareq, Jeremy: the Spring IDE blog is not the right place to talk about the Groovy and Grails support that we are planning/implementing. I will post more details about what our plans are soon on the SpringSource Team Blog. Most likely after the gr8conf.
For now just please take my word that we are making progress and will show something to the community soon.
Christian
is there an update site for STS without having to download the entire eclipse 3.4 distribution with STS included?. STS is only for eclipse 3.4 or it work with eclipse 3.3?
It will be great to see Groovy & Grails on Eclipse as alternative to IntelliJ!
Will the open source branch continued to be actively developed or will it be dropped for the free SpringSource Tool Suite? The last release was November 2008 and the download wiki page still talks about Eclipse 3.2 / 3.3. Don’t want to nag (Spring IDE is great and I’m thankful for this tooling), I’m just curious if the developer tools will stay free as in “freedom”.
Greetings,
Ralf
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My brother swears by this tool!
This is great. thanks for sharing.
Where is the IDE? I have spent almost an hour gigging and looking around, where is the big download? sigh!