Spring Tools (IDE)

[MuradSHG]

Good day everyone,
I am currently trying to set up a workspace with ideasy. We are using Spring Tools (https://spring.io/tools#eclipse), and I am having trouble integrating it into ideasy. As I understand it, the custom tools are intended only for plugins / third-party software and not as a way to install Spring Tools or configure all settings based on it.

Is there a way I haven´t considered?

Kind regards,
Murad

[hohwille]

Hi @MuradSHG,
thanks for your question and interest in IDEasy.
IDEasy currently supports eclipse in the following editions (see here):

• eclipse the default Java edition
• jee like above but with more enterprise plugins pre-installed
• cpp for C++ development

You can configure such things via ECLIPSE_EDITION variable.

So we do not explicitly support spring as an eclipse edition.
If you really think this is needed, feel free to create a feature request (and try to collect some votes for it).
However, I do lots of spring-boot development with the build-in standard editions and just add the spring plugins for eclipse in my settings.
Could you try if that solves your needs already?

BTW: The main reason for such eclipse editions (or distributions) like spring is that users do not want to manually install all the plugins and therefore it is easier to download the completely bundled thing.
However, this approach is not so flexible. So you can still get the default edition and install the required plugins to end up with almost the same result as the spring edition. Once you have gone through that process, you will see that you then have the options to also opt-out some plugins of the spring edition you might not need and also to opt-in others that you might also want to have but are not shipped with spring edition.
Since IDEasy in the end automates everything, you only need to invest a little time to configure and test the plugins properly but then your team can setup everything fully automated and does not need to care if that come from the spring edition or not.

[MuradSHG]

Hey Hohwille,

Thank you for the detailed response. We are now validating internally whether the Spring Tool plugin would be a good fit for us.

When setting up a workspace with Eclipse, we noticed that IDEasy starts Eclipse with each repository import and stops the subsequent imports until Eclipse is manually closed. I couldn’t find any configuration or parameters related to this. Did I miss something?

[hohwille]

When setting up a workspace with Eclipse, we noticed that IDEasy starts Eclipse with each repository import and stops the subsequent imports until Eclipse is manually closed. I couldn’t find any configuration or parameters related to this. Did I miss something?

That is something else. But most likely you have configured the repository to be imported into Eclipse.
Unfortunately, Eclipse is a legacy monster hard to tame and our automated import does not work as reliable as we would love to.
But getting someone from the Eclipse community, who could help here is a very tricky task.
Eclipse is full of more relevant bugs that have not been addressed for decades.
After all it is still a great free Java IDE that I still like - especially for its unique incremental compiler that is really awesome.
Check your repository properties file for import keyword.
Documentation:
https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/blob/main/documentation/repository.adoc

[MuradSHG]

Thanks for the help! I removed the Import of the repositories and need to import them manually , but it no longer stops.