The spring IDE for the Eclipse plug-in

This article describes how to take advantage of the Eclipse plug-in spring IDE for use in eclipse.

Eclipse is a very popular development platform, and the open architecture allows many programmers to find their own personalized work environment.

Questions raised:

When using the spring framework for system development, the writing of the bean's configuration file XML, the content checksum of the XML file, and the dependency view between the beans can multiply the development efficiency by using the appropriate tools.

Workaround:

The Spring IDE is the Eclipse plug-in recommended by the Spring official web site, which provides validation of the bean definition file while developing spring and visually viewing dependencies between the individual beans.

At the same time, it is advisable to combine the Eclipse Xmlbuddy plug-in to edit and validate XML files.

Installation Instructions

jdk:1.5.0 Download Installation from http://java.sun.com

eclipse:3.1.2 from http://www.eclipse.org to download decompression

Spring 1.2.8 Download extract from http://www.springframework.org

Spring IDE 1.3.2 Download from http://springide.org

Xmlbuddy 2.0.72 Download from http://www.xmlbuddy.com/

Spring IDE 1.3.2 Update Address: http://springide.org/updatesite/

Management skills

Hint: New downloaded plugin plugin must not be placed in the original Eclipse directory, a lot of tired you: (

The premise is that you have downloaded the extract and set up the Eclipse tools, such as decompression in the E:\OpenSource\Eclipse\ directory, the following directory to%eclipse_home%;

At this time the default plug-in is in the%eclipse_home%\plugins directory;

To establish a pluginsnew directory under%eclipse_home%;

For example: E:\OpenSource\Eclipse\PlugInsNew

If you download a new plugin, such as: XYZ

Then create the XYZ directory in the%eclipse_home%\pluginsnew\ directory, which is the Eclipse directory, and the Eclipse directory contains features and plugins two subdirectories, as shown in the following figure: