Tag Archive for 'eclipse'

Eclipse Community Award Finalist

Published by Christian Dupuis 9 months ago in Noteworthy. 4 Comments

FinalistTorsten and I are feeling very honored by the announcement that Spring IDE is one of the finalist in the ‘Best Open Source Eclipse-Based Developer Tool’ category of this year’s Eclipse Community Awards. We really value the announcement and see this is as great recognition of the work we have put into Spring IDE during the last four years. Thanks to the Eclipse Foundation and the judges.

Additionally I’m very excited to see EclEmma as the other finalist in that category. EclEmma is one of those tools I use myself very frequently and I think it adds great value to the Eclipse Community. Therefore regardless what project takes the award at the end I’m looking forward to meeting with Marc R. Hoffmann, the creator of EclEmma, and the other nominees at EcliseCon and hope that we’ll find some time for a beer or two.

Speaking about EclipseCon I think it is going to be an amazing week; there’ll be lots of Spring-related stuff to see and unveil.

Update: The results are out. Congratulations to the EclEmma project for winning the Eclipse Community Award for Best Open Source Developer Tool.

Introducing Spring IDE Screen Casts

Published by Christian Dupuis 9 months, 2 weeks ago 1 Comment

Today I uploaded three new screen casts that should help getting started with Spring IDE.

If - after watching the casts - you feel like you need to install Spring IDE make sure that you follow the installation instructions.

Spring IDE 2.0 brings improved Project Explorer Integration

Published by Torsten 1 year, 7 months ago in Journal and Noteworthy. 6 Comments

With this blog entry I would like to introduce one of Spring IDE 2.0’s new features - the improved integration with Eclipse’s Project Explorer.

But before delving into the details let’s take a look on the Project Explorer:

Project Explorer with web projectThis view was introduced with Eclipse 3.2. It leverages the Common Navigator Framework to present a domain-oriented view of the projects in the workspace. General projects are shown in the same way as the Navigator view, but other projects are presented in a hierarchy that makes sense for their particular domain. For example, Java projects appear as a hierarchy of source folders and packages rather than folders.

Project Explorer with web project Starting with version 1.3.3 Spring IDE contributed Spring-related content and corresponding filters to the Project Explorer.

With the upcoming version 2.0 of Spring IDE these contributions to the Project Explorer were further improved:

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Adding Support for Custom Namespaces

Published by Christian Dupuis 1 year, 8 months ago in Journal and Noteworthy. 13 Comments

Since version 2.0 Spring supports an XSD-based configuration approach that allows integrating your own DSL for configuration into Spring. How to implement such namespace extension has been documented and the approach has been adopted by several Spring sub-projects and others, e.g. Spring Web Flow and DWR.

In response to an issue in our ticketing system and some comments I got recently, I’m going to introduce Spring IDE’s extension points for plugging in support for your own configuration namespace. These extension points allow you – as a custom namespace developer – to add support for navigation, content assist and validation to Spring IDE.

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