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Home PageCategories: RAD - Dev automation
Latest version: 1.0.0.RC1
Added 2009-09-25
Interactive, user customizable tooling that enables rapid delivery of Java applications.
Features included:
- 100% Java programming
- IDE services like code assist, debuggers, visual error reporting, etc.
- Type safety and zero runtime dependencies on Roo
- Zero lock-in and dependence on Roo
- Spring Framework 3 application architectures
- Maven 2-based project structures
- JPA-based persistence (eg. via Hibernate) and with 100% JPA compliance and implementation portability
- Inbuilt database configuration support, with automatic JDBC configuration for most popular databases
- Transparent dependency injection and persistence methods for all entities, including those retrieved via JPA
- Bean Validation (JSR 303) support, including propagation of the constraints down to database DDL
- Automated JUnit integration tests that build on Spring Framework's integration test features
- An automated RESTful application backend
- Automated Selenium tests of your web tier
- Dynamically creating finders on your entities, producing robust JPA QL finder methods without any coding
- Spring Security integration
- Spring Web Flow one-line ("install web flow") installation services
- Instant email sending support
- Inbuilt Log4J configuration support
- URL rewriting that keeps the URLs clean and RESTful
- Easy manual web controller creation
- Round-trip support that sustains higher productivity over the full application lifecycle
- Embedded Tomcat server container usage
- Eclipse and SpringSource Tool Suite integration
- Tab-completing, hint-providing, contextually-aware command line shell
- Scripting support
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Home PageCategories: AOP, Frameworks, Inversion of Control, MVC, Web frameworks,
Latest version: 3.0
Added 2005-03-10Updated 2009-09-25
Java/J2EE application framework.
Features include:
- JavaBeans-based configuration (XML)
- Inversion of Control (IoC) container
- AOP framework
- Declarative transaction management
- O/R mapping integration with Hibernate and JDBC support
- Web MVC framework
- Full Java 6 and Java EE 5 support (JDBC 4.0, JTA 1.1, JavaMail 1.4, JAX-WS 2.0)
Spring is modular, with a layered architecture, meaning that you can choose to use just about any part of it in isolation.
Spring is designed from the ground up to help you write code that's easy to test.
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Home PageCategories: Frameworks
Latest version: 2.2
Added 2006-04-11Updated 2007-12-09
Graphical user interface for the configuration files used by the Spring Framework.
Spring IDE is built as a set of plugins for the Eclipse platform.
Features include:
- Project nature that support a list of Spring bean config files and sets of bean config files (aka beans config sets)
- Incremental builder that validates all modified Spring bean config files defined in a Spring project
- View that displays a tree with all Spring projects and their Spring bean config files
- Image decorator that decorates all Spring projects, their bean config files and all Java classes that are used as bean classes
- Editor (read-only) that displays a graph from all beans defined in a single config file or a config set
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Home PageCategories: IDEs - IDE plug-ins
Latest version: 2.1
Added 2009-09-25
Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring-powered enterprise applications.
STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) includes tools for all of the latest enterprise Java and Spring based technologies as well as tooling for enterprise OSGi development.
Features include:
- Spring project, bean and XML file wizards
- Graphical Spring configuration editor
- Spring 3.0 support including @Configuration and @Bean styles
- Spring Web Flow and Spring Batch visual development tools
- Spring Roo project wizard and development shell
- Spring Application blue prints and best practice validation
- Enterprise OSGi Development
- OSGi bundle overview and visual dependency graph
- Classpath management based on OSGi meta data
- Automatic generation of manifest dependency meta data
- SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository browser
- Manifest file validation and best practice recommendations
- Flexible Deployment Targets
- Support for all the most common Java EE application servers
- Advanced support for SpringSource dm Server and tc Server
- Amazon EC2 cloud targeting for dm Server and tc Server
- VMware Lab Manager integration and application deployment
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