Building on Eclipse: the SpringSource Tool Suite

At EclipseCon, while showing the following screenshot, I was struck by the amount of open source collaboration and commercial innovation behind the bits on the screen. You’re looking at the recently launched SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) beta that SpringSource and Tasktop Technologies have been building. The screenshot showcases several open source projects interoperating via common...

Why the Spring Tool Suite is building on Eclipse

There have been some questions about whether the upcoming Spring Tool Suite (STS) will support other IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA. Rod Johnson and I recently answered some related questions on InfoQ, but the answer to this one is still evolving, so please consider sharing your thoughts on it. In choosing an IDE integration strategy...