Spring IDE is the proven standard toolset for doing Spring development within the Eclipse Platform. It supports Spring's core programming model and the board range of open-source Portfolio Products. With the SpringSource Tool Suite additional value-added features have been introduced that combine Spring IDE and Eclipse Mylyn to significantly streamline the development process and help making SpringSource best-practice knowledge and recommendations available to developers while working in their IDE. This session will introduce the different tool products from SpringSource and will outline their benefits.
Christian joined SpringSource, the company behind the Spring Framework, in
2008 as a Senior Software Engineer. He is a member of the Tools Team based in Vancouver and is responsible for the various tool offerings of SpringSource. Since 2004 Christian is leading the well known Spring IDE open source project that provides development tools for the Spring Portfolio based on Eclipse. Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian designed complex software architectures with a focus on multitiered, web-based, client-server applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource, Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting firms in the financial sector in central Europe. Christian has presented on a variety of enterprise Java topics at conferences such as JAX, W-JAX, SpringOne and The Spring Experience.
