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 4.28.1 released

Releases | February 14, 2025 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

  • Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution builds for Windows now signed with correct certificate

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit:

Spring Tools 4.29.…

Spring Tools 4.28.0 released

Releases | February 05, 2025 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Spring index cache optimizations leading to performance and memory improvements
  • (Spring Boot) additional performance improvements while running Spring specific validations
  • (Spring Boot) Boot LS JAR size decreased to 207Mb from 271Mb

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

  • early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-03 milestone builds

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

Spring Tools 4.27.0 released

Releases | December 04, 2024 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.27.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Support for @ConditionalOnProperty annotations: completions, navigate to definition and find references
  • (Spring Boot) Find references support for property keys in @Value annotation
  • (Spring Boot) Support concatenated Strings for data queries inside @Query annotations

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes:

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…

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