STS 3.0.0.M2 released

[Martin Lippert]

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the second milestone build of the upcoming SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.

This M2 build includes a number of significant changes and reflects the new structure of the tooling going forward. The main goal was to move away from one big monolithic tool towards smaller independent components. Therefore the different components of the SpringSource Tool Suite have been separated from each other and are now usable on an individual basis.

All this allows us to start shipping different flavours of our tooling projects. Beginning with this M2 build we start to ship two different ready-to-use distributions:

• The Spring Tool Suite: This is mostly identical with the old SpringSource Tool Suite. It brings you all the relevant features to enjoy Spring development in your IDE (including the full Spring IDE feature set, tc Server integration, and ready-packed runtimes for tc Server Developer Edition 2.7.0 and Spring Roo 1.2.2).
• The Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: This new member of the family provides you with an out-of-the-box Groovy/Grails development experience with no need to install any extra components. It has all the necessary parts pre-installed and pre-configured: Groovy-Eclipse with Groovy 1.8, Grails IDE, tc Server integration, and ready-packed runtimes for tc Server Developer Edition 2.7.0 and Grails 2.0.4.

The Dashboard comes with each distribution and allows you to add the remaining projects into your installation on demand.

Due to the componentization effort some artifacts have been renamed and this renaming has impacted some of the eclipse metadata stored in your projects. The M2 versions of the distributions include migration tools that well help you update your project metadata automatically to use the new naming scheme.

For more details about new and changed features, please refer to the 3.0.0.M2 New and Noteworthy document.

If you come across incompatibilities, migration problems, bugs, or any other suggestions, please provide feedback in this forum and file issues via JIRA.

Downloads are available from the official STS download page, take a look in the „Other Downloads“ section.

The final 3.0 releases are scheduled for early August 2012.

Enjoy!

[d_cavestro]

In order to update from milestone update sites my STS (originally a 2.8.1 then updated to 2.9.2) I had to add http://dist.springsource.org/release/AJDT/composite update site in order to avoid missing dependencies, as per the following error log chunk

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE Operation details
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite 3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37 (com.springsource.sts.ide 3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37)
!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE Missing requirement: Spring Tool Suite Package 3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37 (com.springsource.sts.package.feature.group 3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37) requires 'org.maven.ide.eclipse.ajdt.feature.feature.group 0.0.0' but it could not be found
!SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE Cannot satisfy dependency:
!SUBENTRY 3 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE From: SpringSource Tool Suite 3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37 (com.springsource.sts.ide 3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37)
!SUBENTRY 3 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2012-07-03 11:27:53.379
!MESSAGE To: com.springsource.sts.package.feature.group [3.0.0.201206120746-M2-e37]

Cheers
Davide

[janwen]

How can i cancel Secure Storage,every time i start sts,i need to input the password

In order to update from milestone update sites my STS (originally a 2.8.1 then updated to 2.9.2) I had to add http://dist.springsource.org/release/AJDT/composite update site in order to avoid missing dependencies, as per the following error log chunk



Cheers
Davide

[d_cavestro]

How can i cancel Secure Storage,every time i start sts,i need to input the password

This works for me:
* in eclipse go to [Window|Preferences] and set the Secure Storage Password tab to UI Prompt
* add -eclipse.password /path/to/user/home/.eclipse/master to your ide launch command where master is a plain text file with the password you have chosen for the secure storage.

Cheers
Davide

[janwen]

Not understand,I just want cancel the password storage

This works for me:
* in eclipse go to [Window|Preferences] and set the Secure Storage Password tab to UI Prompt
* add -eclipse.password /path/to/user/home/.eclipse/master to your ide launch command where master is a plain text file with the password you have chosen for the secure storage.

Cheers
Davide

[d_cavestro]

Not understand,I just want cancel the password storage

Provided that I am not an expert (I am an sts user), the solution I gave you works for me, i.e. with that option I don't have to set the password every time I start the ide.
BTW you could also try to remove the secure password storage (I suppose it's a file with encrypted credentialspasswords and related options).
Here you are some reference documentation.

Cheers
Davide