If you installed Spring Tool Suite, it’s not necessary to follow the installation of Spring Tools below Spring Tools

With eclipse installed, I suggest you to open it and start getting used with the GUI and also the shortcut keys. Open powershell and install eclipse using the following command line: If you don’t know Chocolatey, take a look at this post. Go to eclipse download page, select the latest version (on the writing date of this guide is the 4.10 and install it using NNF (next, next and finish). Use the following sections based in which operational system you’ll be using: Windows STS is basically eclipse configured with spring tools plugin, optimized for spring framework development It’s also worth to mention that installing Spring Tool Suite (STS) instead of pure eclipse, is highly valid. Java JDK 8 or higher Installing Eclipse.The github repository of the example project of this post, can be found at: Requirements

In this guide I’ll demonstrate how to install, configure eclipse and create a simple Hello-World using java, eclipse and spring boot. Using this development stack, we gain more productivity and agility from small to large sized java projects. To those who develop in java nowadays, it’s almost impossible to miss Spring framework and more specifically Spring Boot.

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