Spring IDE 2.0

Spring IDE 2.0 is Final
Published by Christian 1 week, 3 days ago in Journal and Noteworthy. Tags: 2.0, release, spring ide.
We have just released the final version of Spring IDE 2.0.
After fixing approximately 250 bugs and working uncountable hours on adding support for Spring 2.0, Spring Web Flow, Spring AOP and Spring JavaConfig, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of Spring IDE 2.0.
The progress we’ve made since version 1.3.6 was only possible because of constant community feedback; it is the community feedback that kept us going. Therefore we would like to take the chance to thank everybody who submitted a ticket, provided feedback and helped spreading the word about Spring IDE in the past.
Download Installation Change Log
The release is available from our release update site. Spring IDE 2.0 is licensed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License - v1.0.
New Features
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. For those of you that are not familiar with recent development of Spring IDE here is a short list of features included:
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 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.
Spring IDE 2.0 is compatible with upcoming Eclipse 3.3 (aka Eclipse Europa).
Support for Spring 2.1 Features
Spring IDE’s AOP feature supports Spring 2.1’s new bean() pointcut primitive that enables you to specify a certain bean or a set of beans for pointcut matching. For example the pointcut definition

would only match on a bean named serviceBean. Certainly you can combine the bean pointcut primitive with any other primitive that is supported by Spring. It even works for @AspectJ-style aspects.
Furthermore Spring IDE 2.0 supports the facility. Beans created by the class path scanning infrastructure are recognized by Spring IDE and handled as normal beans; though they are visually marked with an @ icon decoration.
Once the new Spring 2.1 configuration namespaces are finalized we will add support for them asap.
Enjoy…
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