Christian Dupuis - Biography

Lead of SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring IDE

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 (http://springide.org) 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 multi-tiered, 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.

Presentations by Christian Dupuis

Focusing Enterprise Java Development: Mylyn and Spring IDE

Recently, the benefits of Mylyn have been combined with the open source Spring IDE project to provide a tool for developing Spring applications. Come to this talk to see this development tool in action."

Enterprise Development Tools for Spring Applications

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 at their fingertips while working in their IDE. This session will introduce the different tool products from SpringSource and will outline their benefits.
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Books by Christian Dupuis

Beginning Spring Framework 2

by Thomas Van de Velde, Bruce Snyder, Christian Dupuis, Naveen Balani, Sing Li

Beginning Spring Framework 2 shows beginning Java developers how to build serverside Java applications using the latest 2.0 release of the Spring Framework. The book does not assume any previous knowledge of J2EE--in fact, the authors argue that beginners learn more quickly by starting directly with Spring..

The authors show readers how to build a working web application using Spring with other open source tools and technologies, all of which can be freely downloaded and installed via the Internet. Each chapter builds a portion of the application. All the Spring concepts and construction techniques are introduced during the design and coding of this application. (With minor adaptation, the resulting code can be re-used by readers in their own working applications.)
Available At: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Spring-Framework-Thomas-Veld..

Spring IDE Blog
The Spring IDE team blog

Christian Dupuis's complete blog can be found at: http://springide.org/blog/

SpringOne 2.2.1 Release Available

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Just in time for this year’s SpringOne Americas I released Spring IDE 2.2.1 to the update site at Amazon S3. This version is mainly a bug fix and maintenance release, but there are three changes that I’d like to highlight in this post.

But before I go into detail here are the usual download links:

Update site: http://dist.springframework.org/release/IDE (this link does not work in a browser, but in your Eclipse update manager!)
Archived update site: spring-ide_updatesite_2.2.1_v200811281800.zip
Changelog: Release 2.2.1

Support for Workspace external configuration files

Since early versions Spring IDE wasn’t able to recognize XML configuration files from workspace external resources like JARs from classpath containers. Only JARs that were sitting inside a project could be searched for configuration files. This limitation is due to the fact that the Eclipse resource abstraction has no knowledge of external resources and provides no access to those. But Spring IDE heavily relies on this abstraction like so many other Eclipse plug-ins.

I finally ended up implementing a thin layer to integrate JARs from external locations into the resource abstraction to make Spring IDE able to open and parse those files.

Ignore missing NamespaceHandler warning

Although Spring IDE can easily be extended to support custom namespaces, there are a lot of frameworks out there that don’t ship or provide an integration. Normally that would end up in a “Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for element 'node name' of schema namespace 'uri'” warning in Eclipse or the SpringSource Tool Suite.

There is now a setting to disable this warning on the Project properties dialog.

Refactoring of Content Assist Infrastructure

If you are already in the business of extending Spring IDE’s namespace support you might want to take a closer look at the work that has been done for making the implementations of the IContentAssistCalculator more reusable. This refactoring will most likely break your extension depending on the extension approach you choose.

Making your extension compatible with the new API is not hard and should not involve a lot of changes. Please let me know if you run into any problem or need advice on how to migrate.

Compatibility with SpringSource Tool Suite

SpringSource Tool Suite 1.1.1 is not yet compatible with the 2.2.1 release of Spring IDE. Please don’t update!. We will release an updated version of STS shortly after SpringOne that will come with recent Spring IDE and will also feature lots of new Spring-related tooling.

Conference for the Global Spring Community

In the Spotlight - Christian Dupuis

Lead of SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring IDE

Presentations by Christian Dupuis

Focusing Enterprise Java Development: Mylyn and Spring IDE

Enterprise Development Tools for Spring Applications

Books by Christian Dupuis

Beginning Spring Framework 2

by Thomas Van de Velde, Bruce Snyder, Christian Dupuis, Naveen Balani, Sing Li

Spring IDE Blog
The Spring IDE team blog

SpringOne 2.2.1 Release Available

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Spring IDE 2.2 released

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Conference for the Global Spring Community

In the Spotlight - Christian Dupuis

Lead of SpringSource Tool Suite and Spring IDE

Presentations by Christian Dupuis

Focusing Enterprise Java Development: Mylyn and Spring IDE

Enterprise Development Tools for Spring Applications

Books by Christian Dupuis

Beginning Spring Framework 2 by Thomas Van de Velde, Bruce Snyder, Christian Dupuis, Naveen Balani, Sing Li

Spring IDE Blog The Spring IDE team blog

SpringOne 2.2.1 Release Available Saturday, November 29, 2008

Spring IDE 2.2 released Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Beginning Spring Framework 2

by Thomas Van de Velde, Bruce Snyder, Christian Dupuis, Naveen Balani, Sing Li

Spring IDE Blog
The Spring IDE team blog

SpringOne 2.2.1 Release Available

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Spring IDE 2.2 released

Tuesday, September 30, 2008