Spring IDE 2.0 M2 released

[Torsten Juergeleit]

We have just released the second milestone release of the upcoming Spring IDE 2.0.

This release adds some more features to the AOP support, e.g. support for AJDT's visualiser, inter-type declarations and Spring's advisor concept.

Read more over at http://springide.org/project/wiki/SpringIde2Milestone2 and make sure that you direct your Eclipse Update Manager to http://springide.org/updatesite_dev.

[manifoldronin]

I just installed M2 in Eclipse 3.2.1, when Eclipse starts the status shows it's configured properly, but the feature doesn't seem to actually have been loaded, i.e., I can't find any Spring IDE related menu items or views. It's a new installation, not an upgrade from M1. The only other plugin installed is subclipse. Nothing from .log.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

[manifoldronin]

I went on and installed JST and WST from Callisto, and afterwards Spring IDE suddenly works too. Is there any dependency? Oddly Eclipse didn't give the dependency error when I tried to install Spring IDE though.

[Torsten Juergeleit]

I went on and installed JST and WST from Callisto, and afterwards Spring IDE suddenly works too. Is there any dependency?

WebTools is THE (optional) dependency. For details please refer to the installation guide.

Oddly Eclipse didn't give the dependency error when I tried to install Spring IDE though.

Without WebTools Spring IDE is still working. But some features (mostly the BeansXmlEditor) are not available because they are depending on WebTools.

[sbeigel]

Hi,

it seems like SpringIDE 2.0M2 doesn't work w/ WTP 2.0M4. Can someone confirm?

This is copied from the roadmap:
This release will work with Eclipse 3.3M4 and WTP 2.0 M4.

I'm using Eclipse 3.3M4 and WTP2.0M4 (and deps) and I get the following error:

Unexpected exception parsing XML document from file [.../applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving method "org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.io.xml.LineNumberPreservingDOMParser.setEntityResolver(Lorg/xml/sax/EntityResolver;)V" the class loader (...)

Code navigation and completion seem to work, but I cannot auto-complete (or navigate) when the beans are declared using XSD/namespaces.

For example having a bean like this:

<!-- Data Source -->
<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/myDs" />

and trying to reference it here:

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="...">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
...

Neither auto-completion the bean's name ("dataSource") nor navigating to it via Ctrl-Click is possible.

The Spring config file is marked with an error "x" icon in the package explorer.


Thank you,
Sebastian

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi,

actually I used exactly the same environment to do the development during the last couple of weeks. That seems to be some kind of version mismatch between the version we compiled and the version running. Seems that Spring IDE's Xml parser is having a hard time here.

We'll have to look at that.

Christian

[Christian Dupuis]

Hi Sebastian,

I've created a ticket at http://springide.org/project/ticket/448.

Btw. Gruesse nach Wiesbaden.

Christian

[Torsten Juergeleit]

I'm using Eclipse 3.3M4 and WTP2.0M4 (and deps) and I get the following error:

Unexpected exception parsing XML document from file [.../applicationContext.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving method "org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.io.xml.LineNumberPreservingDOMParser.setEntityResolver(Lorg/xml/sax/EntityResolver;)V" the class loader (...)

Please provide the full stacktrace (we need the line numbers :-). You can post it here or better add it to the ticket Christian has created for this issue.

[manifoldronin]

WebTools is THE (optional) dependency. For details please refer to the installation guide.

Without WebTools Spring IDE is still working. But some features (mostly the BeansXmlEditor) are not available because they are depending on WebTools.

Well, until JST/WST was installed, I couldn't see anything related to Spring IDE. "Anything" as in I couldn't even add the Spring nature. Doesn't sound very "optional" to me.

[Torsten Juergeleit]

Well, until JST/WST was installed, I couldn't see anything related to Spring IDE. "Anything" as in I couldn't even add the Spring nature. Doesn't sound very "optional" to me.

You're right. Starting with Spring IDE 2.0 one must install WST. Introducing this dependency allowed us to drop our own version of the Xerces XML parser shipped with Spring IDE's Core plugin and leverage the Xerces plugin from WLST instead.

So we have to update the list of required software for Spring IDE 2.0