Problem in installing GEF

[anagha]

Hi All,
I'm newbie to Spring and may be my query is of very primary kind.
I installed Eclipse 3.1.0.I did NOT have GEF installed.
I installed "Spring IDE" thorough "Software Updates" without any hassles.
When I did "New-->Project" it did not show me the menu item of "Add Spring Project Nature".
I downloaded "GEF-ALL-3.1.zip" but I don't know how to install this GEF zip in eclipse.
I tried "Search for updates" for eclipse site but this did not work.
Pls. point me to the correct way of installaing SpringIDE.

Thanks,
Anagha

[anagha]

Sorry to bother...I got the link and I've installed GEF in eclipse.
Now my Help of eclipse shows the following:
Spring IDE 1.2.3
GEF 3.1.0
I'm using the eclipse "3.1.0". Still the problem persits. The "File->New" menu still does NOT show new "Sptring Beans Project Nature" in the menu.
What can be wrong?

thanks,
anagha

[Torsten Juergeleit]

Anagha,

"Add Spring Project Nature" is available on the context menu of an already existing project (which hasn't the Spring nature already attached) only. So you have to create a simple project or a java project first and then you can convert it to a Spring project by using this context menu entry.

This information (and other useful stuff) can be found here.

If this doesn't help then please keep us informed so that we can update the wiki pages. Or better you add the missing information yourself ;-). These wiki pages are editable by anyone.

Cheers,
Torsten

[anagha]

Torsten,
That's perfect. It worked after creating a new Java Project.
I anticipated something like "File->New Project" should show the "Spring Project" as menu item.
That is the case for some eclipse plugins I installed. e.g. JBPM

Thanks a lot,
Anagha