The Spring Tool Suite

Posted on October 16th, 2007 by Adrian Colyer in Spring.

Adrian Colyer

You may have seen some of the recent press surrounding the announcement that Interface21 is partnering with Tasktop to create a "Spring Tool Suite". This suite will bring together Spring IDE, the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT), AspectJ, and Mylyn to create a task-focused approach to the development of Spring-powered enterprise applications. We hope to have a preview of the integrated suite available to share with you at the forthcoming The Spring Experience conference, but in the meantime you'll see many of the improvements flowing into the existing Spring IDE, AJDT, AspectJ, and Mylyn open source projects.

I'm pleased to announce that Christian Dupuis will be joining Interface21 in the New Year to help us take Spring IDE to a new level. I'm also pleased to say that Andy Clement, my long-time partner in crime on AspectJ also joined Interface21 last week. He will be working on AspectJ and AJDT as well as contributing to the Spring portfolio overall. Both Christian and Andy will be part of our tools lab in Vancouver, working with Mik Kersten and the Tasktop team. We have vacancies for two software engineers to work alongside Mik Kersten, Andy Clement, and Christian Dupuis in Vancouver: one position to work on the compiler and weaving engine, and one position to work on the IDE tools. If you are eligible to work in Vancouver and interested in one of these positions, please visit the Interface21 careers page for more information or email jobs_ca at interface21 dot com.

 

10 responses

  1. Mik Kersten says:

    Added on October 16th, 2007 at 11:07 am -Quote

    I blogged some more on the people behind this great effort.

  2. Mark says:

    Added on October 16th, 2007 at 11:27 am -Quote

    Hey!

    Here are some metrics that our site has measured for SpringIDE - http://www.sourcekibitzer.org/ProjectPage.ext?sp=Sspringide

    SpringIDE contributors, it's 5 of them according to code repo, didn't publish their individual metrics yet, but hope to see their Bios there soon…

  3. Marten Deinum says:

    Added on October 17th, 2007 at 6:12 am -Quote

    Would love to get my hands on some code :) . But we need to wait.

    What I'm wondering is this tool suite also going to include support for generating code or include functionality like to ROO framework (or use the ROO framework)? It would be great if an effort was taken, because the demonstrations I seen on ROO are promising.

    Regards,
    Marten

  4. Christian Dupuis says:

    Added on October 17th, 2007 at 7:47 am -Quote

    On October 17, 2007 at 6:12 am, Marten Deinum said:

    What I'm wondering is this tool suite also going to include support for generating code or include functionality like to ROO framework (or use the ROO framework)? It would be great if an effort was taken, because the demonstrations I seen on ROO are promising.

    Marten, that is definitely something we will be investigating. But at this point of time we can't give your any timeframe for this.

    For the time being I think it would make sense to report a 'New Feature' request in Spring IDE's JIRA so we don't loose this request.

    Christian

  5. An IntelliJ IDEA user says:

    Added on October 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 am -Quote

    As an IntelliJ IDEA (7) user I'm a bit concerned about the focus on Eclipse for the 'Spring tool suite'. Are there any plans to producing a similar tool suite for other IDE's?

  6. Davide Baroncelli says:

    Added on October 24th, 2007 at 8:14 am -Quote

    I'm an idea user, too, but I think that JetBrains has to keep up with the pace of the competition by developing similar (and better) tools for IDEA: one can't ask open source developers to provide plugins for a commercial tool. It's the commercial tool that needs to motivate its existence by innovating.

  7. Mik Kersten says:

    Added on October 24th, 2007 at 12:28 pm -Quote

    David and other IDEA users,

    The answer to your questions turned out long enough to become it's own blog entry. Please take a look and let us know your thoughts and feedback.

  8. Eugene Kuleshov says:

    Added on October 24th, 2007 at 1:47 pm -Quote

    Interestingly, it seems like it is been assumed by everyone, but haven't confirmed by either Interface21 not Tasktop. So, I want to clarify if Interface21 is planning to make the newly announced tools suite free and open source or it is going to be a commercial offering?

  9. Mik Kersten says:

    Added on October 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm -Quote

    Eugene, see the answer to Question (3) and others in the InfoQ interview, also linked from my blog entry.

    If you or any else have other questions about the open/closed split please consider posting here. We'll be creating an FAQ about the suite in the near future, and will post a link on this blog entry.

  10. tubby says:

    Added on November 2nd, 2007 at 5:19 am -Quote

    That's all we need, more bloatware for eclipse. ;)

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