I cannot get this to work with WSAD. Any ideas?

The issue is I cannot add the Spring Nature to the project since the option is not in the context menu.

Which version of WSAD and JDK are you using? The minimum requirements for Spring IDE are Eclipse 2.1 with JDK 1.4.

Why I can not create users here?! What a wiki opensource site is this!
Besides I really prefer to download all the plugin az a tarball and untar it inside my eclipse directory! This way I can take it anywhere I like, without having to download it again! (reusability, you know )

You can create Wiki users, but it's not obvious . The Wiki accounts are the same as these used by Spring's bug tracking system JIRA http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/. So if you create a JIRA account you have your Wiki account too.

For every version of Spring IDE you can download an archive with the delta of the update site from http://springframework.sourceforge.net/spring-ide/eclipse/updatesite/. These archives hold a sub-set of the update-site which allows you to install a specific version of Spring IDE. So you have the same level of reusability but you have to use Eclipse's update manager (which is anyway the recommended way of installing plugins .

Hi
This looks interesting, but I'm having some problems getting started. This is what i've done:
1. Downloaded and extracted the GEF-runtime-3.0.zip and GEF-SDK-3.0.zip from http://www.eclipse.org/gef/

2. Downloaded and extracted updatesite_1.0.3.zip from http://springframework.sourceforge.net/spring-ide/eclipse/updatesite/

3. Restarted Eclipse

Have I missed something? The Spring Nature is an option in the context menu, but nothing happens when i click it.. When trying to open a non-Java file like applicationContext.xml, eclipse tells me it is "Error: Unable to create part: applicationContext.xml", and instead of showing my beautiful app-file, the error message: "An error has occured when creating this editor" is shown.

BTW, I use the plugin xml-Buddy. Could that be my problem?

Spring IDE is not related to any specific text editor in Eclipse. So if opening an XML file with XmlBuddy fails then you have to check the XmlBuddy installation first (Did you install the correct version for Eclipse 3 (Final) of XmlBuddy? There are different versions available (one for Eclipse 3 up to M4 and one for M9/RC1).

For activation and usage of Spring IDE please refer to the section "Usage" on the plugin's homepage (http://www.springframework.org/spring-ide/eclipse/index.html#usage).

Using Spring IDE 1.0.3 in Eclipse 3.0. IBatis config files are marked as in error: "Unsupported DTD http://www.ibatis.com/dtd/sql-map-config-2.dtd

The config file has:
<!DOCTYPE sqlMapConfig PUBLIC "-//iBATIS.com//DTD SQL Map Config 2.0//EN" "http://www.ibatis.com/dtd/sql-map-config-2.dtd">

I also tried:
<!DOCTYPE sqlMap PUBLIC "-//iBATIS.com//DTD SQL Map 2.0//EN" "http://www.ibatis.com/dtd/sql-map-config-2.dtd">

– J. Betancourt

Spring IDE is not capable of handling iBatis config files. It's only aware of Spring Beans config files and the corresponding Spring Framework DTD.

So don't add to a Spring project definition (via contect menu Project / Properties / Spring Beans Project / Config Files) anything other than Spring beans config files!

My Beans view gives reclamation saying element "bean" should not have an attribute "abstract", (maybe old dtd?), but i use a configuration of that sort:
<bean id="baseTransactionProxy" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean"
abstract="true" >
...
</bean>

This plugin will not run on WSAD 5.1.2 or lower, because the eclipse version in WSAD is using jdk1.3

I'm just starting to set up Spring and thought it would be good to set up the Eclipse IDE. Started by downloading the Framework (1.1.3) and then downloaded the Spring IDE (1.0.3) which insists I download the Framework (1.0.2).

Should I be using 1.1.3? Must I use 1.0.2 to use the Spring IDE?

I'd be grateful for any help, Bill

Hi, where can I download the latest version? update-site has only up until 1.0.3.

BR,
Jukka