Spring Tools 4
Spring Tools 4 is the next generation of Spring tooling for your favorite coding enrivonment. Largely rebuilt from scratch, it provides world-class support for developing Spring-Boot-based enterprise applications, whether you prefer Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, or Eclipse Theia.
Getting Started
Spring Tool Suite 4 makes it easy to get started. A direct and easy-to-use integration of the Spring Initializr and the famous Spring Guides allows you to go from nothing to a running Spring Boot app in seconds.
Navigate your Spring code at the speed of light
Understanding and quickly navigating source code is essential for coding. The new Spring Tools 4 understands your Spring-Boot-based source code and allows you to quickly get an overview and navigate to the important pieces of your Spring apps. Finding Spring elements and navigating to them has never been easier.
Smart Code Editing
Code completion is a critical part of working with source code. The all-new Spring Tools 4 provides smart code completions for the Spring elements in your app.
Runtime Information In Your Editor
Spring Tools 4 now bridges the gap between your source code and running Spring Boot applications. By taking advantage of the Spring Boot Actuators, we enriched the source code with detailed information from the running app (e.g., exact bean wiring information, conditional reports, configuration, details, and more).
Categories: IDE
Tags: spring, Spring IDE, Cloud, Spring Tool Suite, STS, LSP
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31)
Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK
Organization Name: Broadcom
Development Status: Production/Stable
Date Created: Friday, July 11, 2014 - 12:41
License: EPL
Date Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 14:21
Submitted by: Martin Lippert
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July 2024 | 2/663 | 20756 | 41 |
June 2024 | 1/681 | 21035 | 28 |
May 2024 | 1/682 | 22708 | 46 |
April 2024 | 2/687 | 21883 | 67 |
March 2024 | 2/694 | 23743 | 98 |
February 2024 | 2/687 | 20741 | 71 |
January 2024 | 1/691 | 24074 | 63 |
December 2023 | 1/671 | 21360 | 32 |
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Unsuccessful Installs in the last 7 Days: 522
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Re: Re: Re: Re: installing software has encountered problem
Submitted by Triguna Mutugu… on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 06:07
In reply to Re: Re: Re: installing software has encountered problem by Martin Lippert
Thanks a lot. This helped me. I used e4.7 for Eclipse Oxygen and I could resolve the issue.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: installing software has encountered problem
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:47
In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: installing software has encountered problem by Triguna Mutugu…
Glad to hear I could help and that you got this working!!!
STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work
Submitted by Francesco Cadili on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 02:59
I've installed in an eclipse J2ee platform 4.6.3 (neon 3) the STS 3.8.4.201703310634-RELEASE first downloading it from update site (...release/TOOLS/update/e4.6/) and then from the marketplace but Spring plugins aren't loaded properly .
I've looked for any of the custom spring elements inside eclipse environment, for instance spring perspective, or spring nature, spring preferences, but I found none of them.
Have I downgrade my eclipse j2ee installation to 4.6.2 or 4.6.1?
My previous spring installation is based on eclipse j2ee mars 2 and works fine even if it is a bit old.
Francesco
Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 05:58
In reply to STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work by Francesco Cadili
Do you see any error? Maybe in the error log? I need a bit more details about the problem, since the general install should just work fine. An alternative approach would be to download the ready-to-use STS distribution from https://spring.io/tools, which is a Neon.3 Eclipse with STS components pre-installed.
If you want to dive deeper into debugging what went wrong with the install, you could open a console view, switch to the OSGi Host Console, and type "ss" for "short status" to see which bundles are installed and what state they are in. If some of them are in the state "INSTALLED", something is wrong and we could dive deeper from there.
Re: Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work
Submitted by Francesco Cadili on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 08:53
In reply to Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work by Martin Lippert
At least I installed STS on eclipse J2EE neon 3. The working sequence was:
1. install STS from market place on a clean up version of eclipse J2EE. (The installation form the updated site didn't work since I got a fatal exception at eclipse restart.)
2. Then install the other plugins.
Thank you. Francesco
Re: Re: Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 11:41
In reply to Re: Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work by Francesco Cadili
Do you see any error message in the Error Log view that could be related? Or did the installation went smoothly and afterwards, you don't see anything in Eclipse? Isn't there a Spring perspective that you could select?
Re: Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work
Submitted by Francesco Cadili on Fri, 04/07/2017 - 09:34
In reply to Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work by Martin Lippert
I think I found an answer to my problems: the update site ****://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.6 works fine but ****://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.6/ seams not work.
The dig gives for download.springsource.com:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
download.springsource.com. 261 IN CNAME dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net.
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.241
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.230
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.77
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.85
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.248
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.34
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.127
dgkephn8a5i01.cloudfront.net. 21 IN A 54.230.95.211
whereas for dist.springsource.com:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
dist.springsource.com. 233 IN A 104.16.65.137
dist.springsource.com. 233 IN A 104.16.69.137
dist.springsource.com. 233 IN A 104.16.67.137
dist.springsource.com. 233 IN A 104.16.66.137
dist.springsource.com. 233 IN A 104.16.68.137
Francesco
Re: Re: Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 04/10/2017 - 13:44
In reply to Re: Re: STS with Eclipse J2EE neon 3 do not work by Francesco Cadili
download.springsource.com is the CDN version of dist.springsource.com (so the various IPs make absolute sense), but both should work and should serve the same content. The network route to both will be different, but the served content is the same. I still think that stale cache data causes dist.springsource.com to not work for you case.
Cannot install STS in eclipse
Submitted by Sanatkumar Dhir on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 17:58
Trying to install in Eclipse neon using update site and get following error:
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=C__Program Files_eclipse_jee-neon_eclipse, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.net4j.jms.api,3.0.0.v20110215-1551
No repository found containing: osgi.bundle,org.springframework.roo.wrapping.protobuf-java-lite,2.3.0.0001
Re: Cannot install STS in eclipse
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 02/06/2017 - 13:16
In reply to Cannot install STS in eclipse by Sanatkumar Dhir
I am wondering which marketplace entry you chose. I tried to install STS 3.8.3 into Neon via the Marketplace a minute ago and it worked so far. Can you verify that you chose STS 3.8.3 from the Marketplace? I am also wondering why there is a bundle called "org.eclipse.net4j.jms.api" being installed. This is not used directly by the STS components, but maybe it is chosen by the underlying mechanism as a provider for jms packages? Maybe... Anyway, you could also try to install STS by using the update site directly in the "Install New Software" dialog (in case the marketplace entry continue to not work for you). Make sure you choose http://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.6. It would also be useful to check the configured update sites in the preferences (Install/Update -> Available Update Sites) and make sure that there is not another, maybe wrong update site configured (in addition to the correct one, mentioned above).
Error installing the plulgin in Eclipse Mars.2
Submitted by Nahid Chowdhury on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 13:03
*Eclipse Details*
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
Version: Mars.2 Release (4.5.2)
Build id: 20160218-0600
*System Details*
Win 10 pro (x64)
*Error*
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=J__Eclipse_eclipse, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
Unable to read repository at (http://)dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/3.8.3.RELEASE/e4.5/plugins/org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.cloudfoundry.client_3.8.3.201612190658-RELEASE.jar
Read timed out
Can you try to remove the STS
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 01/10/2017 - 03:47
In reply to Error installing the plulgin in Eclipse Mars.2 by Nahid Chowdhury
Can you try to remove the STS update site from the preferences (Available Update Sites), restart Eclipse, add it back, and try again? It looks like a temporary network issue, but that might have left stale cache data in the installation. The removal of the update site + restart should clean that up.
If that doesn't work, you can try to manually use the repo URL: http://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.5
Hope that helps!!!
Error installing the plulgin in Eclipse Neon.2
Submitted by Serena Monllor on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 05:22
I use the following Eclipse Neon.2
and get the following error:
An error occured during the org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.CheckTrust phase.
session context was:(profile=C_eclipse-jee-neon_eclipse,phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.CheckTrust, operand=, action=).
Error reading signed content.
Exception in opening zip file:
C:\Users\smo\.p2\pool\plugins\com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-annotations_2.5.0.v201504151636.jar
Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance.
What worked at the end
Submitted by Serena Monllor on Thu, 01/05/2017 - 14:41
In reply to Error installing the plulgin in Eclipse Neon.2 by Serena Monllor
The problem was, that the following two .jar archives were corrupted:
com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-annotations_2.5.0.v201504151636.jar
com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-core_2.5.0.v201504151636.jar
The solution was:
1) Download the two artifacts manually for example from University of Kent UKMirror Service
2) Replace the two corrupted artifacts in C:\Users\smo.p2\pool\plugins\ with the manually downloaded ones
3) Reinstall the plugin over the Eclipse Marketplace
Spring Dashboard
Submitted by Nataliia Arinicheva on Thu, 08/04/2016 - 12:32
Environment: Windows 7, Java 8 (Update 101), Eclipse Neon (4.6), Spring IDE 3.8.1.
When I open Spring Dashboard, Eclipse shuts down.
There are some details from the log file:
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION (0xc000001d) at pc=0x000007fee296ca90, pid=3464, tid=0x0000000000001b34
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_101-b13) (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.101-b13 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C 0x000007fee296ca90
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
Hard to tell what is going
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 15:37
In reply to Spring Dashboard by Nataliia Arinicheva
Hard to tell what is going wrong here. You might want to switch to the old dashboard (via the preferences) if this crash happens again. Does this crash happen every time?
Spring Project Template is missing in Eclipse Luna
Submitted by vlad budovskiy on Wed, 08/03/2016 - 06:32
Use Luna Service Release 2 (4.4.2). After isntalling STS from eclipse marketplase i cannot find Spring Project Templates at menu (New->Other...) Can anyone tell me how can I fix it?
The wizard "Spring Project
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 15:35
In reply to Spring Project Template is missing in Eclipse Luna by vlad budovskiy
The wizard "Spring Project Templates" got replaced with "New Spring Legacy Project". You will find template projects there. But I would strongly recommend to create new Spring Boot projects instead, using the "New Spring Starter Project" and "Import Getting Started Content" wizards. They create up-to-date Spring projects. The templates are deprecated and no longer recommended. Therefore the wizard is already called "Legacy"... :-)
Cannot install. Getting the "Unable to read repository at" error
Submitted by Sumeet Jain on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 15:37
I am using Eclipse Mars.1 Release (4.5.1). I am trying to install this suite to my eclipse. I am getting this error every time.
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed
session context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).
Unable to read repository at htt://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/3.8.0.RELEASE/e4.5/plugins/org.eclipse.m2e.maven.runtime_1.7.0.20160603-1931.jar.
Read timed out
Unable to read repository at htt://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/3.8.0.RELEASE/e4.5/plugins/org.aspectj.ajde_1.8.9.201604061446.jar.
Read timed out
Unable to read repository at htt://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/3.8.0.RELEASE/e4.5/plugins/org.springsource.ide.eclipse.commons.cloudfoundry.client.v2_3.8.0.201606301005-RELEASE.jar.
Read timed out
Please help
PS: I deleted the 'p' from 'http' to post the comment without error
This looks like stale cache
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 15:39
In reply to Cannot install. Getting the "Unable to read repository at" error by Sumeet Jain
This looks like stale cache data from the p2 repositories. I would recommend to delete the STS repositories from the preferences (Update/Install -> Available Update Sites), restart STS, and add that update site again. That usually solves this issue.
Problem with maven project
Submitted by Loc Vo on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 06:45
After install newest STS, I can't create normal maven project anymore. It's not visible in new window. Does anyone know how to solve that problem?
I haven't seen this before
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Sun, 08/14/2016 - 15:40
In reply to Problem with maven project by Loc Vo
I haven't seen this before and those issues are quite hard to debug/analyze. I guess this is caused by a compatibility issue on the OSGi level among the bundles. I think the best solution would be to start with a fresh STS distribution download.
Maven project gone after upgrade
Submitted by Hung Nguyen on Tue, 10/11/2016 - 08:09
In reply to Problem with maven project by Loc Vo
I have the same problem after upgrading to the latest STS. The maven perspective/view is gone after upgrading to the new STS. Maven option is also removed from "Run As" and "Configure" menus.
I don't have an immediate fix
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 10/13/2016 - 09:29
In reply to Maven project gone after upgrade by Hung Nguyen
I don't have an immediate fix for this problem at hand, but I would love to investigate this in more detail. Would you mind reporting an issue here: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ide/issues. That would be great. We could continue the discussion from there. I think I will have to ask for further details (like the state of certain bundles, etc.), so the GitHub issue would make a lot of sense. Thanks!!!
Spring Tool Suite for Eclipse is not working in Eclipse Mars
Submitted by Ihteshamul Alam on Sun, 07/24/2016 - 04:39
So far it was working properly. But today when I am going to reinstall it ( for some reason I need to uninstall it), it shows "The following solutions are not available: Spring Tool Suite (STS) for Eclipse 3.8.0.RELEASE".
Can anyone tell me how can I fix this issue?
I think if you deselect the
Submitted by Andrew Clement on Mon, 07/25/2016 - 15:20
In reply to Spring Tool Suite for Eclipse is not working in Eclipse Mars by Ihteshamul Alam
I think if you deselect the entry 'com.vmware.vfabric.ide.eclipse.tcserver.insight' on the first dialog (called "Confirm Selected Features") then you won't get that popup. But if, on the 'not available' popup, you tell it to install anyway, it should succeed. We will look to fix for the forthcoming 3.8.1
STS For Eclipse 3.8.0 RELEASE is not working in Eclipse Neon
Submitted by Dongwan Kang on Tue, 07/26/2016 - 03:33
In reply to Spring Tool Suite for Eclipse is not working in Eclipse Mars by Ihteshamul Alam
I have same issue. Someone help me...
instaliation done
Submitted by houssamel-din fadel on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 17:14
it's good
Dependencies can't be installed.
Submitted by Renato Perini on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 10:50
Installing STS 3.7.3 on Mars.2 (4.5.2 release).
Obtaining the following error:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Spring IDE Spring Data Support 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE (org.springframework.ide.eclipse.data.feature.feature.group 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE)
Missing requirement: Spring IDE Live Beans Graph 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE (org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.ui.livegraph 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE) requires 'bundle org.eclipse.zest.core [1.0.0,2.0.0)' but it could not be found
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: Spring IDE Spring Data Support 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE (org.springframework.ide.eclipse.data.feature.feature.group 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE)
To: org.springframework.ide.eclipse.feature.feature.group 0.0.0
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: Spring IDE Core (required) 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE (org.springframework.ide.eclipse.feature.feature.group 3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE)
To: org.springframework.ide.eclipse.beans.ui.livegraph [3.7.3.201602250914-RELEASE]
Looks like the installation
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 03/24/2016 - 11:48
In reply to Dependencies can't be installed. by Renato Perini
Looks like the installation procedure can't find the zest bundle, which is coming from the Eclipse Mars p2 update site (that one isn't included in the STS update site since I think it will be in every Eclipse Mars installation anyway). Can you check that and make sure that the main Eclipse Mars update site is in the preferences and activated? If so, the installation should work just fine (tried it again myself a moment ago). Hope this helps!!!
Select this check box:
Submitted by Ying Li on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 22:59
In reply to Dependencies can't be installed. by Renato Perini
Select this check box: "Contact all update sites during install to find required software"
so Eclipse will search all the bundles automatically which required by the software you are trying to install.
Spring Perspective is not coming in Eclipse Luna
Submitted by Kishore Chinta on Wed, 09/16/2015 - 16:17
I installed it in Luna version of eclipse. but it didn't worked as expected. do we have any other plug in for latest versions of eclipse? if yes please provide me with the URL of that.
Thanks in advance
Can you provide a few steps
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 09/18/2015 - 14:30
In reply to Spring Perspective is not coming in Eclipse Luna by Kishore Chinta
Can you provide a few steps to reproduce this installation issue? I tried to install it into Luna SR2 a minute ago and it seems to work just fine. So something seems to be different on your end. Can you provide a few steps? Or maybe try with a fresh Eclipse Luna SR2 installation, just to see if this causes an issue on a plain Luna on your end as well?
Dashboard
Submitted by Curtis Voyer on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 19:01
I encountered the same error as Cristiano, Dashboard (Optional) crashes the install. Using Eclipse 4.4.1. Installed fine without it.
Dashboard
Submitted by Cristiano Castro on Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:02
I found another error when select item Dashboard (Optional), if not select this item, the install works correctly.
Can you provide a few steps
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 09/18/2015 - 14:25
In reply to Dashboard by Cristiano Castro
Can you provide a few steps how to reproduce this? What JRE/JDK are you running on?