The Find Updates tab checks for extension updates.

Extensions tab provides options for installing Roo, Groovy, Grails, and other useful extensions such as Google (GWT & GAE), CloudFoundry, DataNucleus, EGit, FindBugs, PMD, and more.

Feeds - RSS announcements from Spring and Spring Blog posts.

Help & Docs – Forums, JIRA, STS New & Noteworthy.

Tutorials – Spring, Security, Web, Web Flow, WS.

Create – Spring, Java, Grails & Groovy Projects.

The Dashboard tab contains five sections: At the bottom of this view are two tabs: Dashboard and Extensions. When you start STS, one of the first things you will see is the Spring Dashboard. Manage the plugin sites from Help > Install New Software… Clicking the “Available Sites” link shows the currently configured plugin sites. If you are using another version of Eclipse, find installation instructions here.

xml”, and click “Open” to finish the import.

Click the “Import…” button, select the downloaded “bookmarks.

In Eclipse, select Preferences -> Install/Update -> Available Update Sites.

Before installing STS, ensure you have the current JDK installed.

If you already have Eclipse 3.6, download the STS plugin as follows: If these features are already installed and configured, uncheck these products. When installing STS from the native installer, it prompts you to install optional products such as Spring Roo, Apache Maven, and tcServer Developer edition. When choosing versions from the Spring site, go the current version of STS to see the supported Eclipse versions. STS version numbers are different than the Eclipse versions.

Visualizers for graphical configuration editing.

Content-aware Spring shortcuts for Java classes.

Content aware XML Spring Bean editing and refactoring.

STS comes preconfigured with many other plugins such as M2Eclipse for Maven, Web Tools Platform (WTP), Data Tools Platform (DTP), and AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) and JUnit tooling. The main plugin for STS is Spring IDE, which provides the fundamental Spring tooling features. In addition to support for the core Spring framework, STS also provides visual editors, project validators, and Spring Dashboard for other projects such as Spring Roo, Grails, Groovy, Gradle, tcServer, and Spring Insight. SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) is an Eclipse-based IDE with pre-installed plugins that provides valuable features for Spring developers.

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