STS: Spring Tool Suit, is an Eclipse-based development environment for developing Spring applications. It provides a ready environment to achieve, commissioning, operation, and deployment of your Spring application. Including critical servers and cloud computing Git, Maven, AspectJ, and the latest version of Eclipse to provide integrated support.
The first-line installation:
1. View the Eclipse version Help-> About Eclipse, Eclipse version for the corresponding version of the Eclipse Platform
2. Copy https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all address STS corresponding to your Eclipse version of the link, such as: https: //download.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/3.9.8. RELEASE / e4.9 / springsource-tool-suite-3.9.8.RELEASE-e4.9.0-updatesite.zip
3. Open Eclipse, eclipse-> help-> install new software, the path to the paste
4. The option to install only with the Spring Ide
Reference links: the Eclipse line installation spring-tool-suit plugin
The second installation using the archive:
eclipse\jee-2018-09\eclipse
1. Enter Elcipse installation directory, find the file .eclipseproduct; view the version, my version is 4.9.0
2. to address STS STS spring official website to download the compressed package Spring Tool Suite
3. Open Eclipse, open the path Help ----> Install New Software -----> Add -------> Archive Select Local downloaded STS file path
4. Check the compressed file with only Spring IDE can be installed
Reference links: the Eclipse plug-in installed STS