A Groovier Eclipse experience
Update: 15-Aug-09: Comments are now closed. If you want help installing or to give feedback or ask questions, please join the mailing list ( archive ) — For the last couple of months SpringSource has been actively involved in developing the next version of the Eclipse Groovy Tools. The initial goal has been to evolve Read more…
Using Yourkit to Find a Memory Leak
I had such a great experience today with Yourkit that I thought I'd write a quick plug. It's been a couple of years since I used it in anger, and even then it was the best tool I could find, but now it really is ultra slick. I haven't done an exhaustive survey of the Read more…
Maven PAR Plugin 1.0.0.M1
Shortly after the introduction of SpringSource dm Server (Application Platform at the time), Thorsten Maus created a Maven plugin for creating PAR files. This was a great community contribution and we even used it in the Getting Started Guide for dm Server 1.0.x. As dm Server's 2.0 milestones have progressed we've been adding new functionality Read more…
Installing STS into Eclipse 3.5
Today marks a big day for Eclipse and for everybody involved with the Eclipse ecosystem: Congratulations to the Eclipse folks for releasing Eclipse 3.5 aka Galileo. You can read more about the release at http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/. I encourage everybody to download Eclipse 3.5 today and try it out. Since SpringSource is strongly committed to Eclipse and Read more…
Exploring Roo's Architecture
Last month we discovered how easy it is to build a fully-fledged enterprise application in just a few minutes using Spring Roo – our new productivity tool for Java developers. While many Java developers have already started evaluating Roo to help save time on their projects, I've received a lot of questions from people curious Read more…
Getting Started with Spring Roo
Update: The third installment of the "Introducing Spring Roo" blog series is now available and covers Roo's internal architecture in detail. I have a confession to make. While many of you would know I've been busily working away on Spring Roo in recent months, I also have a separate project that hasn't made it into Read more…
Using an OSGi Profile with Bundlor
When managing and transforming as many bundles as are included in the the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository, it becomes very difficult to remember what packages are boot delegated, exported from the system bundle, or from other bundles in your system. This information is important because you probably don't want to import packages that are boot Read more…
Bundlor Version Expansion and Property Substitution
Introduction Recently the M3 milestone of Bundlor has been released (Forum Anouncement). This milestone adds support for Property Substitution and Version Expansion. This blog post explains how to work with these new features to improve the quality of generated Manifests. Property Substitution Bundlor can now be used to substitute any property value into your Manifest Read more…
SpringSource Tool Suite now free
It was April 27th around 2:39pm, when Rod announced in his SpringOne Europe opening keynote: “STS will be free!" Reto Meier, with our partner namics, took a picture as proof of that very moment and published it on flickr.com. Also the audience at SpringOne seemed to be enthusiastic about the announcement and as a consequence Read more…
Jump into Roo for extreme Java productivity
Update: The second installment of the "Introducing Spring Roo" blog series is now available and includes a detailed step-by-step tutorial to help you get started with Roo. The third installment covers Roo's internal architecture in detail. The twittersphere has been abuzz this week with news from SpringOne Europe. One announcement generating a significant amount of Read more…
