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We have just released the first release candidate of Spring IDE 2.0.

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

The release candidate 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.

Spring IDE 2.0 contains lots of new features and a bunch of bug fixes. A list of all closed tickets is available in our ticketing system; currently 222 tickets have been closed. For those of you that are not familiar with recent development of Spring IDE here is a compiled list of features included in RC1:

• Support for Spring 2.0 namespace-based configurations. We have put lots of work into that to make the support as extensible as possible. You can read more about that in another post.
• Support for Spring Web Flow, including an extension to WTP’s XML editor for content assist and hyperlinking as well as validation and graphical editing. More information is available here.
• Tools for Spring AOP based development. This includes support for validating configurations (parsing of pointcut expressions) and visualization of cross cutting references based on <aop:config> and @AspectJ-style aspects.
• Support for Spring JavaConfig M2. This serves as sandbox for testing the extension points of Spring IDE’s core. Read more about that here and here.
• Usability and UI improvements: A new Spring Explorer that replaces the Beans View, Content contribution to the Eclipse’s Project Explorer, a Spring Working Set type to reduce cluttering in the Project and Spring Explorer, Refactoring participants for rename and move refactorings of Java Packages and Classes as well as Bean names, New Project and Spring Bean configuration file wizard.

Besides these features, 2.0 RC1 ships preliminary support for Eclipse Mylyn (aka Mylar) that should work with latest Mylar 2.0 developement build. We are planning to adopt to the API changes due to the Mylar project renaming as soon as a new development build is available; presumingly within the RC2 timeframe.

The next (and hopefully last) release candidate is planned for next week and the final version of Spring IDE 2.0 should be available around SpringOne 2007.

Watch out for more; there is still lots to come…