Getting Started

[Martin Lippert]

Here are some good resources for getting started with the SpringSource Tool Suite:

• Webinar: Getting Started with Spring and the SpringSource Tool Suite (by Josh Long)
• DZone RefCard: Eclipse Tools for Spring (by Gordon Dickens)
• Blog: Getting Started with SpringSource Tool Suite (by Manuel Jordan)
• Blog: Creating a Spring MVC project with SpringSource Tool Suite (by Manuel Jordan)
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions in this forum

Hope this gives you a good start!!!
-Martin

[mh.od.dba]

trying to get STS or the GG tool suite install on a Mac 10.8. i've tried both the STS and GG dmg and tar.gz.

None of them actually start. i can "install" the dmg but when i run the tool suite it just appears to hang.

Help please.

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

When you say that you can "install" the DMG, you mean that the STS installer ran successfully (you clicked through all the installer wizard pages), correct? And what happens when you start "STS" afterwards? Does the splash screen appear? What do you see when it hangs?

-Martin

[mh.od.dba]

yes, i can run thru the installer. but as soon at it starts the tool suite all i get is the 'splash screen'. i've let it sit for many minutes and no result. Watching the 'activity monitor' on the mac it shows some activity. I have to Force Quit to get out of it.

i had looked over the tool suite many months back and it worked but this was prior to 10.8

[Martin Lippert]

Can you capture a thread dump while it is hanging? (using jps and jstack)

[mh.od.dba]

I'm a newbie to java and groovy. How do i go about getting the dump.

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

When the splash screen is hanging around there and nothing happens, go to your console or terminal app (terminal.app on Mac, cmd on Windows, command line console on Linux) and type in jps. Then you get a list of java processes and their IDs. If you are not running another java process, you should be able to figure out which one is for the STS process. Then type "jstack " followed by the process ID and hit enter. That produces a dump of all the threads that are running in that Java process. That output would be quite useful to figure out why STS is not starting up as expected.

HTH,
Martin