Problem in installing GEF

[anagha]

Hi All,
I'm newbie to Spring and may be my query is of very primary kind.
I installed Eclipse 3.1.0.I did NOT have GEF installed.
I installed "Spring IDE" thorough "Software Updates" without any hassles.
When I did "New-->Project" it did not show me the menu item of "Add Spring Project Nature".
I downloaded "GEF-ALL-3.1.zip" but I don't know how to install this GEF zip in eclipse.
I tried "Search for updates" for eclipse site but this did not work.
Pls. point me to the correct way of installaing SpringIDE.

Thanks,
Anagha

[anagha]

Sorry to bother...I got the link and I've installed GEF in eclipse.
Now my Help of eclipse shows the following:
Spring IDE 1.2.3
GEF 3.1.0
I'm using the eclipse "3.1.0". Still the problem persits. The "File->New" menu still does NOT show new "Sptring Beans Project Nature" in the menu.
What can be wrong?

thanks,
anagha

[Torsten Juergeleit]

Anagha,

"Add Spring Project Nature" is available on the context menu of an already existing project (which hasn't the Spring nature already attached) only. So you have to create a simple project or a java project first and then you can convert it to a Spring project by using this context menu entry.

This information (and other useful stuff) can be found here (http://springide.org/project/wiki/SpringideGuide).

If this doesn't help then please keep us informed so that we can update the wiki pages. Or better you add the missing information yourself ;-). These wiki pages are editable by anyone.

Cheers,
Torsten

[anagha]

Torsten,
That's perfect. It worked after creating a new Java Project.
I anticipated something like "File->New Project" should show the "Spring Project" as menu item.
That is the case for some eclipse plugins I installed. e.g. JBPM

Thanks a lot,
Anagha