You should see three sample applications “Hotel Booking”, “PetClinic” and “SpringTravel”. Note that “tc Development Edition” can be downloaded and run on its own, Spring Tool Suite (STS) gives us something extra: “ready to go” sample applications that we can deploy to tc Server – all in one.Ībout those sample applications… Now as you have STS unpacked/unzipped, you can run it and go to “File” –> “Import” –> “Spring Tool Suite” –> “Sample Projects”. And now ( since version 2.2 ), it comes with tc Server Developer Edition that includes Spring Insight, so the easiest way to try out Spring Insight is to download Spring Tool Suite, since it comes with it: I like to think about Spring Tool Suite as an Eclipse on Spring rocks (Spring IDE, Spring Interactive Tutorials, Exception Resolution, and much more).

What actually surprised me is how simple and quick it is to try the Spring Insight in action.

That is such a great idea I though, and watched Jon’s screencast.

For any request you can see all the JDBC queries it made, how much time it took to render, or timings for any of your major Spring beans.” – said Jon Travis in his article on a Spring blog. “ Spring Insight gives deep visibility into your application’s real activity on a request-by-request basis.

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