Spring Tool Suite

Spring Tool Suite is a toolkit for modern-day developers.

It comes packed with the most advanced tooling available for enterprise OSGi development.

It also provides support for all the common Java EE application servers, VMware vFabric tc Server, and lots of IDE integrations.

What is new in this release:

• This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

What is new in version 3.7.1:

• This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

What is new in version 3.7.0:

• This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

What is new in version 3.6.4:

• This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

What is new in version 3.6.3.SR1:

• This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

What is new in version 3.2.0:

• Added support for high-res displays on Mac OSX
• Updated bundled tc Server to 2.8.2
• Major performance improvements for working with Spring projects
• Major improvements to the Live Spring Beans Graph
• Added support for Spring Integration 2.2

What is new in version 3.2.0.M2:

• A lot of overall performance improvements, especially for the Spring tooling.
• Improvements to Live Beans Graph feature.
• Improved Spring Data code completion and validation.

What is new in version 3.0.0.M3:

• Ships on top of Eclipse Juno 4.2 release.
• Includes Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.0 release, which includes Groovy 2.0 compiler support.
• Includes AJDT 2.2.0 release and AspectJ 1.7.0 release (including Java7 support).
• New support for Spring Data (content-asisst, validation).

What is new in version 3.0.0.M1:

• 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

What is new in version 2.9.0:

• Ships now with just released Eclipse Indigo SR2 (3.7.2).
• Updated to tc Server 2.6.3, Spring Roo 1.2.1, and Grails 2.0.1.
• Now includes an AspectJ 1.7.0 based AJDT.
• Support for Spring Integration 2.1.
• Support for Grails 2.0.
• Improved Gradle integration.

What is new in version 2.8.1:

• STS 2.8.1 is now compatible with the new Maven Integration as well as the old one.

What is new in version 2.8.0:

• Ships on top of Eclipse Indigo SR1
• Includes full IDE support for Java 7 (coming with the Eclipse 3.7.1 update)
• Support for Spring 3.1 bean profiles, including validation and navigation
• Support for Spring 3.1 c-namespace including quick-fixes, validation and content-assist
• Improved constructor-arg validation and quick-fixes
• Updated Eclipse Maven integration (m2e 1.0.100), including migration assistance
• Support for Groovy 1.8.2
• Support for Grails 2.0.0.M2

What is new in version 2.8.0M2:

• Spring 3.1 support
• c-Namespace content-assist, quick-fix and validation
• Update to m2e 1.0
• Support for Groovy 1.8.2
• Enhanced type inferencing for Groovy
• Support for Grails 2.0.0.M2
• Improved Grails-aware rename refactorings
• Enhancements to the Gradle support