Spring Tools 3 (Standalone Edition)

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2020-09 (4.17)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.17/

2020-06 (4.16)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.16/

2020-03 (4.15)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.15/

2019-12 (4.14)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.14/

2019-09 (4.13)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.13/

2019-06 (4.12)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.12/

2019-03 (4.11)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.11/

2018-12 (4.10)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.10/

2018-09 (4.9)

https://download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.9/
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Solution Description

Spring Tools 3 (Standalone Edition)

Attention - End of life: The Spring Tools 3 are no longer maintained and no longer updated for newer Eclipse versions. Please upgrade to Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse.

The Spring Tools 3 contain the previous generation Spring tooling for Eclipse, mostly focused on working with Spring apps configured using XML and providing validation support for various additional Spring projects, like Spring AOP, Spring Webflow, Spring Integration, etc.

This cannot be installed in addition to the new Spring Tools 4.

Categories: IDE

Tags: J2EE, spring, Spring IDE, Cloud, jee, STS

Additional Details

Eclipse Versions: 2020-09 (4.17), 2020-06 (4.16), 2020-03 (4.15), 2019-12 (4.14), 2019-09 (4.13), 2019-06 (4.12), 2019-03 (4.11), 2018-12 (4.10), 2018-09 (4.9)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Organization Name: VMware

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Friday, July 12, 2019 - 08:17

License: EPL

Date Updated: Friday, April 29, 2022 - 06:52

Submitted by: Martin Lippert

Date Ranking Installs Clickthroughs
July 2025 43/595 314 7
June 2025 47/627 498 21
May 2025 45/634 537 10
April 2025 43/623 559 12
March 2025 37/661 820 44
February 2025 41/645 725 43
January 2025 37/654 727 16
December 2024 36/654 786 13
November 2024 41/658 728 10
October 2024 43/663 851 3
September 2024 41/642 838 9
August 2024 32/641 917 24
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Submitted by Manoj Verma on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 03:58

Hi I am unable to install Spring tools plugin in eclipse 2019 12.  I am getting below error:

Unable to read repository and .
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target.  How to fix this>

Submitted by Martin Lippert on Thu, 01/23/2020 - 05:34

This error is related to the local JDK installaiton not being able to validate the certificate, but you can tell your JDK to accept the certificate directly (if you search on stackoverflow for that error message, you will find a description how to do that for sure). Another option is to use the update site directly and use a non-https version of it to install the features manually into your Eclipse installation. The third option would be to download a ready-to-use Eclipse distribution that contains all the necessary parts pre-installed from https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all - or - even better - try the latest Spring Tools 4 version from https://spring.io/tools

Hope this helps!