Martin Lippert

Martin Lippert

Martin leads the Spring Tools projects at VMware to provide the best developer tools out there for Spring. In addition to that he works on next generation developer tooling and innovative new architectures for cloud-based developer tooling. Before joining the Spring family, Martin co-founded it-agile, a leading consulting and development company focused on agile software development.

Blog posts by Martin Lippert

Spring Tools 4.26.0 released

Releases | October 17, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.26.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) CRON expressions have auto completion and a nice description as inlay hints now
  • (Spring Boot) @ConditionalOnBean and @ConditinalOnMissingBean have auto completion support now for bean names, including support for go to definition
  • (Spring Boot) support for go to definition for beans and methods in SPEL expressions
  • (Spring Boot) Improvements to completion proposals ordering for application.properties files
  • (Spring Boot) Fixes to PostgreSql validation

Spring Tools 4.25.0 released

Releases | September 11, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.25.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Code lenses added to explain SPEL expressions and AOP annotations with Copilot (VSCode only)
  • (Spring Boot) Symbols, content-assist, and navigation support added for @Named, @Resource, @Inject, and @ConditionalOnResource
  • (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting and validation for CRON expressions inside @Scheduled annotation (VSCode only)
  • (Spring Boot) Navigating to definition for some elements of Data Queries embedded into @Query annotations

Spring Tools 4.24.0 released

Releases | July 23, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.24.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) SPEL syntax highlighting and validation inside Java and embedded Spring Data queries.
  • (Spring Boot) MySQL and PostgreSQL queries syntax highlighting and validation.
  • (Spring Boot) Improvements around Content Assist, Navigation and/or Find References for @Profile, @Resource, @Qualifier, @Value annotations.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.24.0.RELEASE

Spring Tools 4.23.1 released

Releases | June 17, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important fixes

  • (Spring Boot) Ability to switch on/off Query syntax validation and problem severities for query syntax problems #1275
  • (Spring Boot) Unable to view beans for multiple modules in version v1.55 #1271
  • (Spring Boot) navigation to bean class of live bean in dashboard is broken #1269
  • (Spring Boot) navigation to class of wired bean is broken #1268
  • (Spring Boot) Opening Spring Boot project in VSCode leads to StackOverflowError #1166

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

Spring Tools 4.23.0 released

Releases | June 12, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Syntax validation for JPQL, SQL, HQL embedded in Java code
  • (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting for SQL embedded into Spring Data query annotations
  • (Spring Boot) Navigation to beans from @DependsOn
  • (Spring Boot) Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 is available via OpenRewrite recipes.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.23.…

Spring Tools 4.22.1 released

Releases | May 02, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax in Java sources and Named Query properties files (Java sources not supported yet in Eclipse)
  • (Spring Boot) Spring Symbol indexing has order of magnitude smaller memory footprint allowing for indexing very large Spring Boot projects
  • (Spring Boot) New UI in VSCode to show/hide/refresh Live Data for running Spring Boot apps
  • (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml conversions available in Eclipse and VSCode
  • (Spring Boot) Show active profiles for running spring boot applications in Eclipse and VSCode with Boot Dashboard extension
  • (Eclipse)

Spring Tools 4.22.0 released

Releases | March 13, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Add Spring Boot Starters... InlayHint in Spring Boot projects pom.xml next to <dependencies> tag (VSCode only at the moment)
  • (Spring Boot) early TestJars support #1197
  • (Eclipse) fixed: Spring Tool Suite 17 with maven no longer copies application.properties file to the target folder #929

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

Spring Tools 4.21.1 released

Releases | February 08, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.21.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot, VSCode) Log Levels viewing and editing is available in VSCode for live running Boot apps if enabled on the the app via Spring Boot Actuators
  • (Spring Boot, VSCode) Ability to show "Refactor Preview" in VSCode before applying the changes from OpenRewrite recipes

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

  • early access builds available for Eclipse 2024-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.21.…

Spring Tools 4.21.0 released

Releases | December 06, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.21.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Completions experience for request mappings on class method level has been improved
  • (Spring Boot) Spring Boot 3.2 upgrade available via OpenRewrite integration

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.21.0.RELEASE

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Spring Tools 4.20.1 released

Releases | November 01, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Completions for Spring Properties show up 10 times faster initially (as fast as on the consecutive invocations)
  • (Spring Boot) Various performance optimizations around symbols scanning and Java reconciling
  • (Eclipse) Early access builds available for upcoming Eclipse 2023-12 release

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.20.1.RELEASE

downloads

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