Spring IDE for Eclipse 1.3.6 review

Spring IDE for Eclipse project provides Eclipse plugins to ease working with Bean Factory configuration files for the Spring Framewor

License: The Apache License 2.0 File size: 2508K Developer: Torsten Juergeleit

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Spring IDE for Eclipse project provides Eclipse plugins to ease working with Bean Factory configuration files for the Spring Framework.

It contains a Spring project nature (with an incremental builder for validating Spring bean config files), an image decorator (which decorates Spring projects and all Spring bean config files), a Spring view (which allows one to browse Spring projects and their Spring bean config files, including bean properties), and an editor showing a graph from the beans of a single config file or a set of config files.

Here are some key features of "Spring IDE for Eclipse":
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
The following features are currently under development:
Graphical editor for Spring Webflow configuration files
XML editor for Spring beans configuration files

Requirements:
Eclipse Project
Spring

Installation:

Open Eclipse. Go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install.
Select "Search for new features to install". Click "Next".
Click "New Remote Site". Enter "Spring IDE updatesite" for the Name and "http://springide.org/updatesite/" for the URL (Screenshot). Click "OK".
You should now see a a new entry name "Spring IDE updatesite" with a mark next to it (Screenshot). Click on that and check "Spring IDE".
Click on the mark next to "Eclipse.org updatesite" and check the version of GEF which is sufficient for your version of Eclipse. Click "Next".
Select the features "Graphical Editing Framework" and the lastest version of "Spring IDE" from the list. Click "Next".
Check "I accept..." and click "Next". Select or add the appropriate site to install the features. Click "Finish".
Click Install on the warning dialogs during feature verification (both features are not digitally signed).
After successfully downloading and installing the features click "Yes" on the "Would you like to restart now?" dialog.

What's New in This Release:
This version fixes a few bugs regarding BeansConfig files stored in JAR files.