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SpringSource Tools Suite Beta Released

By John Lewis
March 18, 2008

For all you Spring developers out there that are as addicted to cool Eclipse plugins as I am, SpringSource (formerly Interface21 -- the company that employs most of the core Spring Framework development team) has released the first Beta of the SpringSource Tools Suite (STS). The heart of STS is a combination of Mylyn and SpringIDE, which are both available separately and are open source projects.

The unique features of STS are designed to provide "a consultant in a box" -- these include:

  • Tutorials and walk-throughs of various Spring technologies, based on SpringSource training materials
  • Architecture Review tools to help ensure best practices are followed
  • Integrated support tools for interacting with SpringSource technical support
  • Integrated knowledge base that helps with runtime error analysis

This is a beta release with GA planned for the end of April. Unlike most of the Spring Portfolio, STS is not free (as in speech or beer). The Personal Use Edition is free (as in beer) for personal use. Commercial use will likely require a SpringSource support subscription. SpringSource is also planning an enterprise version with more features.

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John Lewis

John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

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