Spring IDE

Develop, manage and deploy Spring Framework based applications.

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Spring IDE is a graphical user interface for the configuration files used by the Spring Framework. Spring IDE provides the following features:

• Project nature which support a list of Spring bean config files and sets of bean config files (aka beans config sets)
• Incremental builder which validates all modified Spring bean config files defined in a Spring project
• View which displays a tree with all Spring projects and their Spring bean config files
• Image decorator which decorates all Spring projects, their bean config files and all Java classes which are used as bean classes
• Editor (read-only) which displays a graph from all beans defined in a single config file or a config set

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Installing this plugin

This plugin is in the EasyEclipse Server Java distribution.

If you install this plugin on another EasyEclipse distribution, the dependent plugins Eclipse Web tools editors and Eclipse Java Development Tools must be present in the EasyEclipse distribution, or must be installed separately.

Getting started

Help is available for this plugin, in the Help > Help Contents menu in EasyEclipse.

However, the help is only about Spring, not Spring IDE. You will find much more documentation about SpringIDE on the Wiki (see the Links section below).

In any case, setting up your first project, however, can be tricky, as you need to add the needed libraries, the configuration files, and the class path to a web application project.

The best solution is probably to download and extract the Spring framework, and import the webapp-minimal sample into an existing Dynamic Web Application. To do that you must:

• Install the Eclipse J2EE Tools plugin.
• Follow the Getting Started instructions for the Eclipse J2EE Tools plugin, including install Tomcat and creating a Dynamic Web Project. Specific settings must be:
  • The project must be called example,
  • You must create and select a target runtime, for example Tomcat 5.5,
  • You must make sure that version for the Dynamic Web Module in the Project Facets is 2.3. (Clicking on the version number let you select among the avaailable values).
• Copy the content of the samples/webapp-minimal/war folder from the Spring installation, into WebContent folder of the Dynamic Web Project you created. This will overwrite the WEB-INF folder.
• Copy the file spring.jar from the dist folder from the Spring installation, to the WebContent/WEB-INF/lib folder of the project.
• Copy the content of samples/webapp-minimal/src
folder from the Spring installation, into the src folder of the project.
• The project should build correctly (no error in the Problems view).
• Run the project by selecting Run As > Run on Server, and select the Tomcat 5.0 runtime that you have created.
• The browser will open on URL http://localhost:8080/example, and you should see a success message

Useful links

• Spring IDE home
• Wiki
• Project FAQ
• Spring IDE provides support for the Spring Framework framework.

You can also look for reviews and ratings, and add your own:

• On Eclipse-Plugins.info

Changelog

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.3.1:

• Upgraded to Spring IDE 2.0.2.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.1:

• Upgraded to Spring IDE 1.3.6.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.0:

• Upgraded to Spring IDE 1.3.2.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.1:

• Upgraded to Spring IDE 1.3.0.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.0:

• Initial release (with Spring IDE 1.2.5).

Credits and License

Credits: SpringIDE team, Torsten Jurgeleit, Christian Dupuis, Robert Mederer, Pierre-Antoine Gregoire

Copyright (c) SpringIDE Team.

This plugin is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 license.

1 Comment »

Comment by C.N.Balu Ramesh

2007-12-03 02:00:53

I need the Spring IDE for Eclipse 3.3 Europa

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