support for creating Spring XML config files

[sanketcs30]

Hi @martinlippert , I'm trying to install STS 3.9.14 plugin in Eclipse IDE , then it's giving multiple errors and I have resolved these by installing new STS 4 plugin , but the main purpose of using 3.9.14 version STS plugin is to work with spring based projects with XML configurations , there is need of using spring bean configuration file , namespaces which is not available in STS 4 plugin , so is Spring team planning for the same spring IDE support in STS 4 also , it will be really helpful as many spring based legacy projects are still going in XML and Java based configurations

Thanks

#STS 4 issue #Support for Spring IDE features @martinlippert

[martinlippert]

Thanks @sanketcs30 for reaching out to us with this request. The STS 3.x plugins for Eclipse are no longer maintained and especially due to the continuous evolution of the underlying Eclipse platform, the old versions of the STS 3.x plugins for Eclipse don't work anymore with the latest Eclipse versions.

We are encouraging the transition to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse and VSCode since a number of years now and your projects that use Spring XML configurations should still work fine with using Spring Tools 4. The piece that I would like to understand in more depth here is what exactly are you missing in the Spring Tools 4? Can you describe those features in more detail and maybe provide sample projects to illustrate those?

There is basic support for working with Spring XML configuration files in Spring Tools 4, like content-assist for bean refs, class names, etc. So what exactly is not (yet) working, what features are you missing the most?

[sanketcs30]

Acutally STS 4 is not having options to create spring bean file , adding namespaces for different spring modules like spring core , aop , mvc , transaction which were available in STS 3 plugin

[martinlippert]

Let me try to summarize: Support for cresting new Spring XML configuration files with an easy way to select the Spring XML namespaces based on the libraries on the classpath of the project.

What about adding additional Spring XML namespaces to existing Spring XML config files? Is this something you would need as well? Or do you mostly select those namespaces when creating Spring XML config files?

[martinlippert]

(I updated the title if this issue accordingly)

[sanketcs30]

Yes @martinlippert Support for cresting new Spring XML configuration files with an easy way to select the Spring XML namespaces based on the libraries on the classpath of the project , it is not available in STS 4 , like in STS 3 plugin when we use following steps
File --> new --> other ---> spring ---> spring beans configuration file and after clicking that configuration file option it will create spring bean configuration file , also in that file itself there will be small tabs like namespaces that is not available in sts 4

Like the image showing namespaces tab

How can we get these options in STS 4 , so it will be helpful if these features of STS 3 are added in STS 4 plugin

[nealwei2008]

Thanks @sanketcs30 for reaching out to us with this request. The STS 3.x plugins for Eclipse are no longer maintained and especially due to the continuous evolution of the underlying Eclipse platform, the old versions of the STS 3.x plugins for Eclipse don't work anymore with the latest Eclipse versions.

We are encouraging the transition to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse and VSCode since a number of years now and your projects that use Spring XML configurations should still work fine with using Spring Tools 4. The piece that I would like to understand in more depth here is what exactly are you missing in the Spring Tools 4? Can you describe those features in more detail and maybe provide sample projects to illustrate those?

There is basic support for working with Spring XML configuration files in Spring Tools 4, like content-assist for bean refs, class names, etc. So what exactly is not (yet) working, what features are you missing the most?

Hi @martinlippert , may I ask how to work with Spring XML configuration files in Spring Tools 4? I can't find this option from the pure latest version of STS4 (4-4.21.0.RELEASE) with no plugin.