SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring-powered enterprise applications.
It also comes packed with the most advanced tooling available for enterprise OSGi development.
Included with STS is the developer edition of vFabric tc Server, the drop-in replacement for Apache Tomcat that’s optimized for Spring.
With its Spring Insight console, tc Server Developer Edition provides a graphical real-time view of application performance metrics that lets developers identify and diagnose problems from their desktops.
STS supports application targeting to local, virtual and cloud-based servers. It is freely available for development and internal business operations use with no time limits.
Here are some key features of "SpringSource Tool Suite":
Spring Application Tools:
· Spring project, bean and XML file wizards
· Graphical Spring configuration editor
· Spring 3.0 support including @Configuration and @Bean styles
· Web Flow and Spring Batch visual development tools
· Spring Roo project wizard and development shell
· Spring Application blue prints and best practice validation
Flexible Deployment Targets:
· Support for all the most common Java EE application servers
· Advanced support for SpringSource tc Server
· Cloud Foundry targeting for dm Server and tc Server
· VMware Lab Manager and Workstation integration and deployment
Enterprise OSGi Development:
· OSGi bundle overview and visual dependency graph
· Classpath management based on OSGi meta data
· Automatic generation of manifest dependency meta data
· SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository browser
· Manifest file validation and best practice recommendations
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The distribution now ships on top of the Eclipse Juno M6 (4.2M6) packages.
· Updated to tc Server 2.6.5
· Some improvements around Spring-related content-assists and code templates
· Groovy 2.0 support
· Grails 2.0.3 support
· Java7 support for AspectJ/AJDT
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