Spring Tool Suite (STS) provides the development environment for Spring-powered enterprise applications. This can be easily downloaded from the Eclipse marketplace in the following manner:
- Within the Eclipse IDE, click on Help | Eclipse Marketplace... and search for Spring STS by submitting Spring STS in the Find text field. The search result would show up different versions of STS for different Eclipse versions.
- Choose the appropriate version and install. The most current version is 3.9.0.RELEASE.
- Restart Eclipse, and you are all set to create your first Spring Boot web application.