Apache Maven is a popular open source tool that offers a convention-over-configuration approach to project build management. Indeed the Eclipse Community Surveys show Maven increased its adoption from 8% in 2009 to 28% in 2010, underscoring its usefulness in a wide range of project settings. Even though you can use Spring without using Maven, there Read more…

It's our pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Roo 1.1.1. This new release incorporates over 250 fixes and enhancements, including many performance and functionality improvements. As always, SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.5.2 will be released very shortly and incorporate this new version of Spring Roo. You can also download the standalone version of Read more…

In the last year, new Spring projects have launched in a number of areas, including social, mobile, data, and integration. I've been doing this for nearly 7 years, and honestly it has never been as exciting for me as it is today. I feel this way because our community understands the importance of raising the Read more…

Git is great for social coding and community contributions to open source projects: contributors can try out the code easily, and there can be hordes of people all forking and experimenting with it but without endangering existing users. This article presents some examples with the Git command line that might help build your confidence with Read more…

We have included some big improvements to Groovy Debugging in the recent release of the SpringSource Tool Suite 2.5.1.

After more than ten months of development and nearly 900 individual improvements, Spring Roo 1.1.0 has been released (download here)! Coinciding with the Spring Roo 1.1.0 GA release, the Google Web Toolkit, SpringSource Tool Suite, AspectJ and AJDT teams have completed supporting GA releases so that you can enjoy the latest versions of these tools Read more…

We are currently celebrating our 6th SpringOne 2GX developer show—since last year, also a celebration of Groovy and Grails. As always, it’s great to hang out with the developer community that has made Spring the phenomenon it is. This year, we not only have record attendance (doubled over last year!) and a fantastic roster of Read more…

Just some of the properties of new, modern applications are that they tend to be highly interactive, data rich, include business processes, and are available over the web from PCs and mobile devices. Powering these applications are platforms that leverage virtualized infrastructure, provide just the right amount of functionality and can scale easily as demand Read more…

Update: SpringSource Tool Suite 3.5.0.M3 is now available for download. It includes the latest Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3 and GWT 2.1.0.M3 support. Many members of the community have been eagerly awaiting Spring Roo 1.1.0.M3, and I'm pleased to announce it is now available (download here). This release incorporates more than 150 new features, enhancements and other Read more…

The recently released STS 2.3.3 M2 introduced a series of enhancements to our Grails support for Eclipse. In this article I'll be discussing what you can expect to find if you try it out (grab it here: SpringSource Tool Suite). Groovy-Eclipse The grails tools actually build on and extend the Groovy-Eclipse support, which is developed Read more…