Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and select Plugins. This functionality is not available in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and IntelliJ IDEA Edu. Spring support relies on the Spring and related plugins, which are bundled and enabled by default in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. For a detailed description of the supported features, see IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate – the IDE for Spring development. IntelliJ IDEA provides extensive coding assistance for Spring, including a dedicated project wizard, code highlighting, intelligent context actions, embedded documentation, navigation, and highly customizable run configurations.

It helps you build modern web applications with support for microservice architectures, cloud systems, reactive processing, and serverless workloads. After the download is finished, unzip its contents so you will have a resulting folder like the following:įinally, go to the sts-* folder and run the STS.Spring is an application framework for the Java platform. The download may take a while since the file is currently quite big (400 MB). However, you can click on See All Versions to pick a 64 bits version on the next page: Please note that the downloaded version is going to be 32 bits so your JDK must also be 32 bits to work. Go to Spring Tool Suite download page and download the latest release clicking on the button below: If you don’t have an Eclipse already, this alternative may fit you since it might be a bit faster and you will end up with the same capabilities as the Eclipse plugin. The second option is to download and run the standalone Spring Tool Suite.

The installation wizard will also propose to restart Eclipse.Īfter Eclipse re-initialisation, your will be ready for Spring development and will immediately notice some a few changes in your IDE. Click on Install, accept the license agreement and proceed with the installation process until it is finished.

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