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 Atom IDE.
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).
Not working with Spring Boot yet and looking for the old Spring Tool Suite 3?
Not yet working with Spring Boot, but looking for tooling for your regular Spring projects? As long as the all-new Spring Tools 4 do not support non-boot Spring projects, please refer to the previous generation of Spring Tools for Eclipse, also known as Spring Tool Suite 3 or Spring IDE, you should look at the "Spring Tools 3 Add-On" entry in the marketplace here: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/spring-tools-3-add-aka-spring-tool-suite-3
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Error while installing Spring tool
Submitted by Agumamidi Manvitha on Mon, 2021-12-06 10:11
I'm getting the below error when I try to install the spring tool..
Error: No repository found at https ://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/sts4/update/e4.21/.
How to resolve?
Re: Error while installing Spring tool
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2021-12-21 12:26
This is usually caused by some stale cache data. You can fix this by going to the Preferenes -> Install/Update -> Available Update Sites, then select the one you mentioned, and press "Reload". This usually solves the problem.
In case this doesn't help, delete the entry from the list of available update sites, restart the IDE, and add the entry back to the list. That should work as a last resort if everything else failed.
Eclipse for JavaEE 2021-03 - Attempt to install STS failing
Submitted by Dino B on Fri, 2021-06-11 23:32
Unable to read repository at
https download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/sts4/update/e4.19/content.xml.
PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
I read few of your answers on here, none of which helped.
I tried also placing the above URL (with https and http) in Install New Software and that failed with
Unable to read repository at
https download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/sts4/update/e4.19/content.xml/content.xml.
Unable to read repository at
https download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/sts4/update/e4.19/content.xml/content.xml.
PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
Also tried installing STS4 IDE which worked fine but it keeps removing my Websphere Liberty node from Define New Server dialog when I right click in Servers tab > New Server > IBM > Websphere Liberty, so that is useless as well.
Note, the above urls have removed "://" because this site does not allow comments with extermal urls, also not helpful at all.
Please help
Re: Eclipse for JavaEE 2021-03 - Attempt to install STS failing
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2021-06-15 02:31
The underlying issue is a missing certificate in your JRE. This question on StackOverflow provides a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21076179/pkix-path-building-failed-a...
Re: Eclipse for JavaEE 2021-03 - Attempt to install STS failing
Submitted by Dino B on Tue, 2021-06-15 17:28
Thak you Martin. However, that stackoverlow did not help. I saw that post before I asked here and I followed it again. While I have been able to add certificate as described (making below assumptions as the explanation was not clear on that), I am still unable to install STS4 into my Eclipse 2021-03.
Following the SO link you provided:
And ended up with the same error as described in my original question
Re: Re: Eclipse for JavaEE 2021-03 - Attempt to install STS...
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 2021-06-23 03:24
The related issue on GitHub is here: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/648
As the reporter of this mentioned in the comments there, the issue got resolved and was caused by some internal security settings that blocked something here.
Hello,
Submitted by Richard Dutellier on Mon, 2021-03-22 10:17
Hello,
I have eclipse JEE 03-2021 R and the last plugin Spring 4.
why the "Edit starter" is missing (in sub-menu Spring) when you make a right click on pom.xml file ?
It was very apprecied !!
Re: Hello,
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2021-03-23 08:28
Hey! The "add starters" menu option is indeed gone (since a few releases already), but I got replaced with a new "Add Starters" menu item that you should be, which also allows you to add starter modules from start.spring.io and even brings more goodies from start.spring.io into the IDE here, e.g. additional resources that start.spring.io would generate for you, new properties in your properties file (in case the selected modules include them), etc. Here is a user guide for this new way to add starters to your project: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Add-Spring-Boot-Starters-To...
Hope that helps and that you like the new wizard!!!
Re: Re: Hello,
Submitted by Richard Dutellier on Wed, 2021-03-24 07:24
Hello Martin,
Thank you for your answer.
Yes I know this procedure which you mentioned in the web link.
But I'm sorry, I prefer the old method with the 'Edit starters' option ...
When we choose 'Add starters', why in the graphical interface, you don't add an 'already selected' section in addition to the 'selected' section?
I think it's important to quickly have a graphic visual, rather than making a comparison with the xml file ...
The 2 ways can be complementary ...
Maybe it's hard to implement the code to be able to do this? ^^
Re: Re: Re: Hello,
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 2021-03-25 03:07
Hey Richard,
your feedback on this is much appreciated. The reason why we no longer do something like a "pre-selection" is starter modules that you already have on your project is based on the latest generations of the initializr project and the way that works. When you select starter modules in there, the resulting project might not exactly contain those modules exclusively. There is logic in initializr and some of the starter modules to do more sophisticated things, like automatically adding additional other starters for you. And there is no "inverted logic" in there, which infers which starters you would need to select in order to produce the set of starters that you have. Therefore we don't really have a way to implement this "inverted logic". (This gets even more complicated if users edited their pom.xml file (in case you use Maven) manually). Therefore we decided to not implement any logic to pre-select existing starters on your project. Sorry for not being able to bring this pre-selection back. Hope you find the new wizard useful nevertheless. If you have additional suggestions, please raise them as enhancement requests here: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello,
Submitted by Richard Dutellier on Thu, 2021-03-25 12:14
Hi,
Ok i understand ^^
May be the response is in the Pom Dependency Analyzer Web tool ?
github.com/tomasbjerre/pom-dependency-analyzer-web
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello,
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 2021-04-01 10:07
Actually, identifying dependencies of a project is not that complicated in an IDE, since the Maven integration for Eclipse in this case already does that work for you - and that is what the pom dependency analyzer tool would do as well in case I understood this. The difficult part is to calculate the pre-selection on start.spring.io that would lead to the pom that you analyze. It is not a 1-to-1 mapping (for a good reason actually, from the project-generation perspective).
SpringBoot wizard not showing on Eclipse 2021-03
Submitted by Alex Xavier on Sun, 2021-03-21 16:38
Hi, I recently downloaded Eclipse 2021-03, and installed STS4, but upon attempting to run a spring boot app, or even creating a new one, it doesn't show the Spring Boot wizard, or Run As Spring Boot App.
Re: SpringBoot wizard not showing on Eclipse 2021-03
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2021-03-23 06:37
Hey! That sounds like an issue with the installation and the underlying bundles being maybe wired in a weird way. The best way forward would be a submit an issue at https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues and tell us exactly which package of Eclipse 2021-03 you installed, which other third-party plugins you added, and how you installed the STS4 components then. I used the Eclipse JEE paclage of 2021-03 and installed STS4 from the Eclipse marketplace and that seemed to work, so we need to take a closer look at your exact setting in which you are trying to install the Spring Tools 4.
As a quick fix for you, feel free to download a ready-to-use distribution of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse from https://spring.io/tools. Version 4.10.0 of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse are a distribution built on Eclipse 2021-03, so you will get the latest in here as well.
Eclipse 2020-12 and Spring Tools 4.9.0
Submitted by HANGYU LI on Sat, 2021-02-20 21:37
<p>How to Install the JAR downloaded from spring.io/tools I tried to Install the JAR under Install New Software and the result is wrong:could not find jar:file:....</p>
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Re: Eclipse 2020-12 and Spring Tools 4.9.0
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2021-02-22 08:51
If you want to install Spring Tools 4 into an existing Eclipse installation, you can choose the "Eclipse Marketplace..." menu entry, then search for Spring, pick the "Spring Tools 4" entry, and press the "Install" button.
The JAR file that you can download from the https://spring.io/tools page is a self-extracting full distribution of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse (including an Eclipse 2020-12 with pre-installed Spring Tools 4 extensions). You can download the JAR and double-click it. It will then self-extract the full distribution.
Eclipse 2020-06 and Spring Tools 4.9.0
Submitted by Lonnie Phillips on Fri, 2021-01-15 10:21
I have installed Spring Tools and I have the Run as spring application, but I don't have the spring boot dashboard.
Re: Eclipse 2020-06 and Spring Tools 4.9.0
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2021-01-18 05:55
From the brief description it sounds like an installation issue or an incompatibility from under the hood somewhere. I would recommend to file an issue at https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/ and provide some detais (maybe a few steps to reproduce), and we can continue from there to find out what is going wrong there.
If you are not tied to Eclipse 2020-06, I could also recommend to download a ready-to-use distribution of the latest Eclipse release (2020-12) with all the Spring Tools 4 pre-installed from https://spring.io/tools.
Re: Re: Eclipse 2020-06 and Spring Tools 4.9.0
Submitted by HANGYU LI on Sun, 2021-02-21 02:43
Could you please tell me how to install STS4.9.0 on Eclipse2020-12?The JAR downloaded from Spring's official website cannot be installed
Re: Re: Re: Eclipse 2020-06 and Spring Tools 4.9.0
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2021-02-22 08:52
replied to this question above when it was submitted as a standalone question and not a reply...
Boot Dashboard not available in Eclipse
Submitted by Mithun Rajeev on Thu, 2020-06-18 12:17
Got the new Eclipse 2020-06 and installed Spring Tools 4 4.6.2.RELEASE and Spring Tools 3 Add-On for Spring Tools 4 3.9.13.CI. Now I am unable to find the Boot Dashboard in the Eclipse > Window > Show View. Is this view still available in the new ST 4 plugin for eclipse?
Re: Boot Dashboard not available in Eclipse
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2020-06-22 12:03
This is fixed in the latest Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.7.0 release, please update to that.
Spring Boot Dashboard not available in Eclipse Version: 2020-06
Submitted by PEI YAO on Thu, 2020-06-18 10:04
Hey,
I just installed a fresh download of Eclipse version: 2020-06 (4.16.0) and then installed the Spring Tool Suite 4 for Eclipse (4.6.2 update e4.16) on my Windows 10.
It seems there is no Spring Boot Dashboard which was available in Eclipse 4.15.
How do I make the Spring Boot Dashboard available in Eclipse 4.16?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Re: Spring Boot Dashboard not available in Eclipse Version: 2020
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2020-06-22 12:04
This is fixed in the latest Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.7.0 release, please update to that.
Crashes Eclipse EE 2020-03
Submitted by Alex Atari on Fri, 2020-03-27 16:21
This plug in is crashing hanging and crashing my Eclipse as of 2020-03-27, I am running Ubuntu 18+ ( b4bit, fully updated/upgraded) as of Mar-27. This Ubuntu is running in Vmware Station inside Window 10/64bit.
I tried removing eclipse and all the dot file, creating new workspace and as soon as I add this plug in Eclipse crashed come back mainly when I want to highligh and replace a word in JAVA code. As soon as I remove the plug in and restart Eclipse, all is ok.
Re: Crashes Eclipse EE 2020-03
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2020-03-31 07:19
That sounds indeed bad. Can you pleaee file a bug at https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/ for this and tell us how to reproduce this crash? Is it really the JVM that is crashing or is it a freeze at the UI, so that the process isn't responding anymore? Is there something in the Error Log View that relates to the problem? Or is the VM itsel crashing and in case that happens, is there a JVM crash log file tha you could attach? In case the process freezes, there is a setting in the "Preferences -> General -> UI Responsiveness Monitoring" that you could turn on to capture stack traces while the UI seems to be frozen. That would be great and help us a lot to find the underlying issues.
Install can not complete (missing repositories)
Submitted by Andrii Stesin on Fri, 2020-03-20 18:22
Re: Install can not complete (missing repositories)
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2020-03-24 11:52
Please take a look at the possible solutions to this here: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/comment/6829#comment-6829
Re: Re: Install can not complete (missing repositories)
Submitted by Andrii Stesin on Wed, 2020-03-25 18:30
Thank you! Reloading the site in preferences worked well for me today. Regards, Andreas
Error "Unrecognized VM option 'TieredStopAtLevel=1'" when run
Submitted by James Balaji on Sat, 2020-03-14 22:35
When use JRE1.7 to run my Springboot project, it fail to start with error "Unrecognized VM option 'TieredStopAtLevel=1'" shown in the eclipse console. But if I use JRE1.8, it's working well. Unfortunately, JRE1.7 is requested in my project.
I searched settings but can't find place to remove this VM option.
Could you tell me how to fix this issue?
Re: Error "Unrecognized VM option 'TieredStopAtLevel=1'" when...
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2020-03-16 16:19
This is part of some default options to speed up the exeution and launch of the Spring Boot app, but you can change that in the "Preferences -> Spring -> Boot", take a look at the "Fast Startup" section, where you can change those settings.
Re: Re: Error "Unrecognized VM option 'TieredStopAtLevel=1'"
Submitted by James Balaji on Tue, 2020-03-17 10:28
Thanks your answer, I found the place and remove the option. However, still not working with another error when I run the application.... seems it's stil a problem of JDK. I have synchronized all configuration place in eclipse with JDK1.7.0 (such as project compiler,classpath settings, eclipse preferences etc). Spring boot version I use is 1.5.9 Release.
The error is "Could not find the main class". then I copy the command and run in the dos window, it says that:"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: cn/com/MainApplication : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0". I know the 51.0 means the version jdk1.7, but I am using JDK1.7.
Could you give some advice? Does STS4 support JDk1.7?
Re: Re: Re: Error "Unrecognized VM option 'TieredStopAtLevel=1'"
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Fri, 2020-03-20 05:10
STS4 in general supports implementing and running applications on top of a JDK7. You need to configure the JDK7 runtime environment in the preferences (as you probably did) and select it as the default for the JavaSE7 execution environment. Make sure it appears correctly as the entry in your project classpath containers in the packag explorer.
In addition to that you need to make sure to compile your project on a Java7 level by setting the compiler level in the Java compiler preferences for your project.
Then in the launch configuration, you should make sure that the JDK7 is used to launch the app. This "could not find main class" is usually related to some misconfigured JRE settings in the areas described above.
Hope this helps!
Got error at 49% installation progress.
Submitted by Simon Wang on Sat, 2020-03-14 22:07
hi Martin, may I have your advice for this installation issue?
Eclipse Version: 2019-12 (4.14.0)
Build id: 20191212-1212
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=).
org.springframework.tooling.boot.ls_1.15.0.202001210741.jar.
Read timed out
org.springframework.tooling.bosh.ls_1.15.0.202001210741.jar.
Connection reset
Unable to read repository at
org.springframework.tooling.cloudfoundry.manifest.ls_1.15.0.202001210741.jar.
Read timed out
Unable to read repository at
org.springframework.tooling.concourse.ls_1.15.0.202001210741.jar.
Read timed out
Re: Got error at 49% installation progress.
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2020-03-16 16:24
This problem is a bit complicated to analyze remotely, since it is not totally clear where this comes from. Here is what you could do to solve this:
Hope that helps.
Can't create a project
Submitted by Pascal Houde on Thu, 2019-10-31 13:00
I have installed STS 4.4.1 from the Eclipse (4.13 64bit) marketplace and don't see the create new project option after restarting the IDE. There were no error during installation. I have tried with JDK 11 and 13 without success.
Re: Can't create a project
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Mon, 2020-03-16 16:28
Sorry for the late answer, somehow missed the question here. You could analyze the underlying issue by opening up the console, opne an OSGi Host Console, and type in "ss" for "short status". If there is anything showing up as "INSTALLED", something went wrong with regards to the dependency resolution of bundles. This is hard to debug and to solve. In that case, I would recommend to download a ready-to-use distribution from https://spring.io/tools and go from there. If the list of bundles shows up fine (nothing in the "INSTALLED" state), then the wizard to create a new project using Initializr (e.g.) should show up ("Spring Starter Project") in a "Spring" category.
Have problem with PKIX path
Submitted by Alex Rubin on Tue, 2019-09-17 13:22
Have problem with PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException.
Can I download ZIP to local and install ?
Re: Have problem with PKIX path
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 2019-09-19 03:45
You can download a ready-to-use distribution of Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse from: https://spring.io/tools
Not compatible Error for Eclipse 4.8
Submitted by Nagaraja Thangavelu on Wed, 2019-08-28 21:43
I am using Eclipse 4.8 Photon and I want to install Spring Tools Suite. The least support version for Spring Tools Suite is 4.9 and predecessor Spring IDE max support is till 4.5 only.
How to install the STS for the eclipse versions 4.6,4.7, and 4.8?
Re: Not compatible Error for Eclipse 4.8
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 2019-08-29 08:13
The latest version of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse require Eclipse 2019-03 as the base platform. If you want to instal the old Spring Tool Suite 3 package instead into an Eclipse 4.8 platform, you could use this update site using the "Install New Software" dialog: https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.8/ - it serves the STS 3.9.7 release, which is the last one compatible with Eclipse 4.8.
Not able to install in Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0)
Submitted by Rajkiran M on Thu, 2019-07-18 03:44
Below logs captured during install. Unable to read repository at download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/sts4/update/e4.12/content.xml. sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
Re: Not able to install in Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0)
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Tue, 2019-07-30 03:50
Probably related to this? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21076179/pkix-path-building-failed-a... ?
Problem with Making new project related to STS or Spring
Submitted by BEOMKWAN KIM on Mon, 2019-07-08 22:16
I've tried to make new spring project after installing eclipse-jee-2019-06-R-win32-x86_64 and STS plug-in.
But I could not see any spring project option when I tried to make it
Re: Problem with Making new project related to STS or Spring
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 2019-07-10 09:32
This is a known issue when running Eclipse on a JDK 1.8 and we are working on it. For a quick solution, run Eclipse itself using a JDK11, that should make the entries appear.
Re: Re: Problem with Making new project related to STS or Spring
Submitted by László Bereczki on Thu, 2019-08-08 04:23
Hi Martin!
Any update on the mentioned bug? Im still experiencing this issue...
, Laci
Re: Re: Re: Problem with Making new project related to STS or...
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 2019-08-08 10:11
This is fixed and will be available as part of the next update release, coming out probably next week. If you want to try a nightly update site, you could install STS4 manually from https://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/sts4/nightly/e4.12 into your Eclipse 4.12 install. I haven't tried that yet, but maybe even updating your existing install with STS4 included (but broken) by adding this nightly CI p2 repo to your available update sites preferences might work - although I haven't tried this myself yet.
Spring Tools 4 Not working in Eclipse 2019-06 New version
Submitted by Ravi Bansode on Mon, 2019-07-08 09:10
I had installed Spring Tools 4 in eclipse new version 2019-06, but it is not showing me Spring Starter Project. I had uninstalled and install it again still not working. Please provide a proper suggestion on it. I don't want to use "Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse" which is provided on "start.spring.io/" here. I want to use an independent eclipse.
Re: Spring Tools 4 Not working in Eclipse 2019-06 New version
Submitted by Martin Lippert on Wed, 2019-07-10 09:33
This is a known issue when running Eclipse on a JDK 1.8 and we are working on it. For a quick solution, run Eclipse itself using a JDK11, that should make the entries appear.
Can't create new spring project
Submitted by Tan TASTAN on Sat, 2019-07-06 07:45
I have same problem. After installed eclipse 2019-06 (withour any error). and installed Spring via eclipse market. But, I could not create a New Spring project. This problem should be solved as soons as possible.