Mr N

This blog is an addendum to Configuring Eclipse to use Tomcat and the Spring Framework but is solely related to Spring IDE 2.2.

1. Install Eclipse 3.4.1 JEE Ganymede SR1
2. Load Eclipse and goto Help->Software Updates…
3. Select the Available Software tab and click Add Site
4. In the Location enter http://dist.springframework.org/release/IDE then click Ok
5. After a bit of flickering Spring IDE Update Site appears (twice!) and along with a couple of others sites
6. If you right click on “http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4″, select Properties, Click Ok, then check and uncheck Include items that have already been installed then the “http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/e3.4″ site will change to Mylyn for Eclipse 3.4!
7. Check Mylyn for Eclipse 3.4, one of the Spring IDE Update Site and http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/33/update/, click Install… - If the Install button is not enabled then uncheck and re-check the buttons until they are select and Install is enabled!
8. You be taken to the Install screen, showing the size of the update as (40,518KB) and All details are ok. Click Next.
9. Now you have to agree the Licenses, so check I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Finish.
10. The software updater will start downloading and installing the updates. You can click the Details button to see what is going on.
11. You must then restart the workbench