The Spring STS Setup in Eclipse IDE

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:

  1. 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. 
  2. Choose the appropriate version and install. The most current version is 3.9.0.RELEASE.
  3. Restart Eclipse, and you are all set to create your first Spring Boot web application.

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