STS & GGTS 3.0.0 released

[Martin Lippert]

Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite 3.0.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.0.0.

As you may have noticed from following the milestone builds for our 3.0 release cycle, we are now shipping two distributions:

• The Spring Tool Suite is best suited for developers using Spring and Java.
• The Groovy/Grails Tool Suite is focused on providing the best experience for Groovy and Grails developers.

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Juno release from June this year.
And both tool suites are now fully open-sourced and componentized into separate projects at GitHub.
Please take a look at the full announcement here: http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08...-and-at-github

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.0.0 New & Noteworthy
FAQ for the 3.0.0 release can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.0.0 FAQ

We recommend to start with STS and GGTS 3.0.0 using a fresh vanilla download of the distributions or an installation from the Eclipse Marketplace into a vanilla Eclipse JEE installation. Manually upgrading an existing STS 2.9.x or older installation is not recommended and is not available through "Check for Updates". Automatic updates will be available again for future releases beyond 3.0.0.

Enjoy!!!
The SpringSource tooling team

[dserodio]

Is it possible to update from STS 3.0.0.M3 to 3.0.0 release using "Check for Updates"? Because it can't find any updates.

[Kris De Volder]

No, that's not possible. The bundle-ids where changed after M3. This was to avoid problems with upgrades from 2.9 to 3.0. The changes are to great to make this possible and people who would attempt to do it would end up with a broken installation.

To avoid these problems we decided to explicitly make upgrades from any pre 3.0.RELEASE versions impossible.

(Note: this is in the FAQ, but as I read it, I see that the entry isn't clear that this also applies to 3.0 milestones, we'll have to fix that, thanks for pointing that out

[dserodio]

Thank you, I had understood from the FAQ that it wasn't possible to upgrade from 2.x to 3.x, but didn't understand that the same applied to 3.0.0.Mn

[Martin Lippert]

You are absolutely right, it wasn't very clear from the FAQ before. Thanks, Kris, for making this clear and adding this to the FAQ.

Cheers,
-Martin

[raj.sisodia]

Symantec is blocking both STS and GGTS 3.0.0 classifying it under WS.Reputation.1 virus. Please see attached files for warnings displayed.

stsRisk.jpg
GGTSRisk.jpg

[jetztgradnet]

I wanted to install the Grails IDE 3.0 into my Juno installation (OSX Mountain Lion), but get the following error (using the release update site):


Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Grails IDE 3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE (org.grails.ide.eclipse.feature.group 3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE)
Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite Groovy Debug Support (Core) 3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE (org.grails.ide.eclipse.groovy.debug.core 3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE) requires 'bundle org.eclipse.contribution.weaving.jdt 2.2.0' but it could not be found
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: Grails IDE 3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE (org.grails.ide.eclipse.feature.group 3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE)
To: org.grails.ide.eclipse.groovy.debug.core [3.0.0.201208091000-RELEASE]


I tried to install the Groovy Plugin from http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin (Version 2.7), but no success. I also tried to install it from the milestone and nightly update site.

Any hints?

Wolfgang

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Wolfgang!

Which update sites did you try for this?

I tried to install the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite tooling into a fresh Eclipse Juno JEE package from the Eclipse Marketplace without any problems. Just open the "Eclipse Marketplace", search for Grails, and select the "Groovy/Grails Tool Suite for Eclipse Juno (4.2)". Its the easiest way to get the grails tooling installed, I think.

HTH,
Martin

[Martin Lippert]

Hey1

Symantec is blocking both STS and GGTS 3.0.0 classifying it under WS.Reputation.1 virus. Please see attached files for warnings displayed.

stsRisk.jpg
GGTSRisk.jpg

Thanks for this hint. The classification under "WS.Reputation.1" seems to be a false positive. I will check with Symantec to get STS and GGTS white-listed.

Thanks for letting us know!
-Martin

[jetztgradnet]

Which update sites did you try for this?

I tried to install from http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/grails-ide/ into Juno 4.2. This did not work.

I tried to install the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite tooling into a fresh Eclipse Juno JEE package from the Eclipse Marketplace without any problems. Just open the "Eclipse Marketplace", search for Grails, and select the "Groovy/Grails Tool Suite for Eclipse Juno (4.2)". Its the easiest way to get the grails tooling installed, I think.

Thanks for the tip, installing from Marketplace did the trick for me.

So Marketplace does have more features, which are not available, when installing directly from the update sites mentioned in the GitHub GGTS readme.

Thanks,

Wolfgang