Pivotal tc Server contains all of vanilla Tomcat, and has a few optional extensions designed to make it easier to deploy and maintain. Broken out into three groups, the diff looks like this: Configuration extensions (No altered code, just config changes we implement) Multi-Instance using shared binaries Trivial to change Tomcat versions while preserving app … Read more
From the menu select Window / Preferences. Look under Spring / Dashboard. Uncheck ‘Show Dashboard on Startup’ (On newer versions of the spring plugin, it is under SpringSource / Dashboard)
I had the same problem on a MacBook Pro i7. Switching editors or views was painfully slow. Solved it by turning off Spring validators that I didn’t need. Go to: SpringSource Tool Suite -> Preferences -> Spring -> Project Validators Specifically, I deselected all validators except for Spring Validator, Beans Validator and STS Bean Validator.
Indeed IDEs often cache the local repository (Eclipse does something similar, and I have to relaunch Eclipse). One ugly maven behavior you might encounter is that if you declare a dependency before you actually install it, maven will create an empty version of the missing dependency (folder with metadata but no jar), and you will … Read more
There are a few other options apart from Project->Clean, some of which are more along the lines of turning it off and on again. Try right-clicking on the project and selecting Maven->Update Project Configuration. Disable then re-enable dependency management (right-click Maven->Disable Dependency Management then Maven->Enable Dependency Management Close the project and reopen it. Check that … Read more
There is a menu entry you have discovered for yourself that toggles the skipping of all breakpoints. There is also an icon for this in the “Breakpoints” View, and there may be a hot-key defined as well, all of which you may have triggered by accident. Take a look at the Run -> Skip All … Read more