Spring UI Plugin for Eclipse / News: Recent posts

It provides the following new features:

* updated to latest spring-core.jar (1.0.2)

* updated Spring reference documentation (1.0.2)

* to support Eclipse 3.0 (final) Spring IDE has to bring it's
own version of the Apache Xerces XML parser (Xerces is
not shipped with the Eclipse platform anymore)

* config set properties page now supports external beans
config files from referenced Spring projects... read more

SpringUI is now hosted as a sub-project of the Spring Framework. The project is now called "Spring IDE for Eclipse - Beans Configuration Support" and can be found here:
http://www.springframework.org/spring-ide/eclipse/

A new release (1.0.1) is available too. It provides the following new features:

* the beans view now supports a context menu (with currently only one entry "properties" which opens the Spring project configuration property page)... read more

eclipse.core:

- spring-core.jar updated to RC2

- added support for inner beans

- now a Spring project has it's own kind of problem
marker

eclipse.core:

- Spring projects can be simple projects too
(removed dependency to Java project nature)

- Java types are searched in referenced Java
projects too (used by validator)

eclipse.ui:

- Spring projects can be simple projects too
(removed dependency to Java project nature)

- added text editor context menu actions (Show In
Spring View, Open Java Type)

- model properties are now displaying additional
information about bean classes and config files... read more

With this release Eclipse 3.0 M7 is supported too.

eclipse.core:

- replaced spring-bean.jar with spring-core.jar
from RC1

- renamed plugin jar from spring-core.jar to
eclipse-core.jar

eclipse.ui:

- modified Spring view's open editor double-click
to support Eclipse 3.0 M7 too

- Spring view now supports property sheet

- prototyp beans are decorated with a red star
in the Spring view

eclipse.core:

- updated to CVS head version of spring-core.jar
(formerly spring-beans.jar)

- added support for lists of config files (aka config sets)

- changed project description from plain list file
".springConfigs" to XML file ".springProject"

- now validator supports child beans too

- added support of bean override detection to
validator

eclipse.ui:

- extended config property page to support config
sets... read more

Changes:

- Bugfix: instead using a a label decorator for Java projects
the extension point 'org.eclipse.ui.projectNatureImages' is
leveraged now

- Bugfix: bean introspector now detects inherited properties
of SourceType too (in previous version only BinaryType was
supported)

- Spring view now displays bean properties too