Martin Lippert

Martin Lippert

Developer Tools Engineering, Spring Tool Suite Lead | Hamburg, Germany

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 4.20.0 released

Releases | September 13, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot): 5x-10x faster Java Reconciling support to show Spring specific validations re-built from the ground up tuned for high performance to work seamlessly in large code bases
  • (Eclipse): No more rogue "Boot Language Server" jobs, forever calculating completion proposals and other stuck Java/Spring tooling features

more…

Spring Tools 4.19.1 released

Releases | August 04, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.19.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

  • early-access builds available for early Eclipse 2023-09 milestones (via the Eclipse Marketplace or the corresponding update site)

selected fixes and improvements

  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Experimental validation support for Spring Modulith (#953)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: duplicates of symbols showing up (#10056)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Let show optional: prefix for spring.sql.init.schema-locations and spring.sql.init.data-locations (#1067)
  • (Eclipse) fixed: class loading exception: SpringModelLanguageServer cannot be found (#1060)
  • (Documentation) fixed: Use Theia Blueprint in the documentation? (#1073)

Spring Tools 4.19.0 released

Releases | June 16, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.19.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

fixes and improvements

  • (Spring Boot) new: Spring Data Repositories: Validate ID type (#457)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: upgrading from Spring Boot 3.0.x to 3.1.0 doesn't work (#1051)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: replace internals of symbols machinery with more comprehensive model of spring components (#1006)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https…

Spring Tools 4.18.1 released

Releases | May 05, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.18.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) enhancement: support navigating to a Spring property file when inspecting on @Value annotations (#761)
  • (Spring Boot) enhancement: support @ConditionalOnProperty in property navigation feature (#1033)
  • (Spring Boot) enhancement: automatically add import for types when applying content-assist proposals for query methods (#991)
  • (Spring Boot) enhancement: [spring-data-support] take type hierarchy of domain types into account (#1013)
  • (Spring Boot) enhancement: [spring-data-support] remove pure findBy method completion from proposal list (#1014)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: several live hovers are missing when running Spring Boot 3 applications (#1019

Spring Tools 4.18.0 released

Releases | March 15, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.18.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot): new and vastly improved content-assist for Spring Data repository query methods (thanks to contributions from @danthe1st)
  • (Spring Boot): the additional reconciling of Spring Boot projects to show Spring specific validations, outdated versions and more, now reports progress, runs faster, and uses less memory - please consider using this and tell us about your experiences and if you hit issues while having this feature enabled
  • (VSCode): fixed an extremely annoying issue that caused regular Java content-assist in VSCode to stop working after a short while
  • (Eclipse): a bug in m2e got fixed and is included in this release, which caused resource files (e.g. application.properties) to not be copied into the target folder anymore. This works again and automatically copies your changed application.properties

Spring Tools 4.17.2 released

Releases | February 01, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.17.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

  • early-access builds for upcoming Eclipse 2023-03 release available via update site

fixes and improvements

  • (Spring Boot) fixed: [symbols] do not auto-limit the result of the workspace symbol request (#915)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Unit test MavenProjectParser (#918)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Give user more information about what is "java sources reconciling" (#920)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: [Java-17] Enable jdt.ls.commons.test tests to execute in the maven build (#928)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: update generated parser for Java properties with latest ANTLR runtime version (#946)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Bad Escape exception showing up in log (#950)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: various exceptions while reconciling (#951)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: NPE from OpenRewrite Java Parser - Cannot read field "info" because "env" is null (#952

The new Spring Boot version validation and upgrade support in Spring Tools

Engineering | January 17, 2023 | ...

New releases of Spring Boot are being released on a quite frequent schedule and updating your projects to newer versions of Spring Boot is something that many teams and organizations around the globe do as part of their daily work.

Sometimes those upgrades are simple and easy, for example for new patch releases that mostly include changes to fix bugs and address CVEs. In contrast to that, upgrading to a new minor or even a new major version requires more work, including code changes to adapt to new or changed APIs, updating configurations to not use deprecated keys anymore, and more.

Each new minor or major version of Spring therefore ships with a comprehensive guide and documentation about those changes and you can read and follow to upgrade your project. A good example of this is the new migration guide for upgrading your projects to Spring Boot 3

Spring Tools 4.17.1 released

Releases | January 03, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.17.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

fixes and improvements

  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Eclipse STS 4.17 takes 96 % processor time on Intel i9 (#934)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: BootLanguageServerBootApp class is taking all available cpu continuously (#932)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: OpenRewrite unchecked, but always Language Server Background Job(Loading Rewrite Recipes) (#925)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] spring.factories EnableAutoConfiguration key for boot 3.0 ignores 'on' setting (#917)
  • (VSCode) fixed: [vscode] Boot LS is broken if Java LS launch mode is 'Hybrid' (#919)

Spring Tools 4.17.0 released

Releases | December 07, 2022 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.17.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

early access to new experimental features

Among a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, this release introduces experimental support for:

  • Spring Boot version validations: The IDE will tell you when there is a newer major, minor, or patch version available for your Spring Boot project
  • Spring Boot upgrade support: The tooling will help you upgrading your existing projects to newer Spring Boot versions, including upgrades to newer patch and minor versions, as well as newer major versions (e.g. upgrading to Spring Boot 3)
  • Spring specific validations and refactorings: The…

Spring Tools 4.16.1 released

Releases | October 26, 2022 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.16.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

  • early access builds available for Spring Tools 4 on Eclipse 2022-12 milestones

important note for upgrading from a release prior to 4.16.0 on Eclipse

fixes and improvements

  • (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring XML Config support does not show symbols with scope "File" (#860)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: [open-rewrite] exception when executing quick fix for project (#853)
  • (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] quick fix to convert autowired field to constructor param shows up even if the constructor param already exists (#815)
  • (VSCode) fixed: Vscode Spring Boot Tools 1.39.0 prevents Java project from Running/Debugging (#847)
  • (Eclipse) fixed: Web Tools Platform (WTP) validation is activated by default (#859)
  • (Eclipse) fixed: ask user to save dirty editors before deploying on docker (#803

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