Mr N

During Spring development I got this exception, but there was almost no reference to what caused it. So after a lot of searching I found out the cause and thought I'd blog it for others struggling with the same problem. more »

I have just spent the last 2 days looking for why my Spring container (under Tomcat) was getting ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError during start up. There is so much mis-leading stuff in the Internet. I had 2 projects in Eclipse: the cor… more »

I've been using SpringSource Spring Tool Suite (STS) for a while now. It's pretty good. One of the problems with Eclipse is maintaining all the dependencies for web development and thankfully the chaps at SpringSource take care of all that for you. I… more »

I've been doing work with the SpringFramework now for about 3 years. It has been a very steep learning curve - occasionally I feel like I'm rock climbing! I started off using SpringIDE which is an open source commercial free Eclipse plugin which can a… more »

Firstly you need to install Eclipse 3.5 Galileo, then once that's up and running you can use the Spring update site to install the Spring Tool Suite (STS). Follow these simple step-by-step instructions. I'm assuming that you are the only Java developer u… more »