no integration graph view in eclipse sts 4?

Question

Don't even have the option of creating spring bean config files anymore, a slew of features just gone from the transition to 3.9 to 4? Seems like they sacrificed quite a bit on the eclipse end for that IDE agnosticism if this is the case...

Answer 1

The Spring Tools 4 do not contain any support for Spring XML configuration files anymore, we removed that support completely from the tooling. Spring Tools 4 focuses on Spring Boot and using annotations to configure your Spring application.

As a side effect of that, the specific support for Spring Integration got removed, too. That is the reason you don't see any graphical representation of Spring Integration XML files anymore.

There is an option to install the old STS3 components as an add-on into the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse (you can find that on the Eclipse marketplace). That way, you get both (the old and the new tools) in the same IDE. This is not meant as a permanent solution, but to allow for a smooth migration to the new tools in case something is missing or you desperately need a specific piece of the old tooling.

In those cases, I would recommend to raise an enhancement request for the new tooling at https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues in order to get important features into the new tooling before the add-on will reach its EOL (in mid 2019). We very much love to hear from you what you are missing and what should be added to the new tooling. It will probably not come back in the same way (since the news tools are re-written from scratch using a totally different tooling architecture), but understanding what is missing and why you would like to get a specific piece back would be awesome.