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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Spring Tool Suite: Next-Gen JEE Development

Interface21, developer of Spring application framework has announced
that it will partner with Tasktop Technologies, creator of the Eclipse
Mylyn project, to develop the Spring Tool Suite, an integrated set of
tools featuring Mylyn's task-focused user interface for building
enterprise Java applications. The suite will allow teams of developers
to more easily manage very large applications by emphasizing the
relevant portions a developer is working on, with more-graphical,
more-easy to navigate views, while minimizing the parts of the structure
that aren't relevant in that particular context. The Spring Tool Suite
will include support for: (1) The latest Spring 2.0 features, including
namespace-based configurations; (2) Spring Web Flow, including an
extension to WTP's XML editor for content assist, hyperlinking,
validation, and graphical editing; (3) Tools for Spring Aspect-oriented
programming based development, including support for validating
configurations and visualization of cross cutting references; (4) Spring
Java configuration. The partners plan to continue co-evolve both Spring
Tools Suite and the open-source projects that it's built upon, thereby
avoiding the pitfall of having tool development lag behind the advances
in the Java language and libraries. For Interface21 subscription
customers, the Spring Tool Suite will assist in training as well as
in application development. The suite will contain training materials
embedded along with Mylyn-based task contexts to walk through building
Spring applications. The user interface will automatically trigger
wizards and create projects, displaying only the parts of the JDK,
Spring Framework and so on that are relevant to what you're learning. More Information

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