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Martin Lippert edited this page Mar 27, 2025 · 8 revisions

This section explains the relationship between STS3 and Spring Tools for Eclipse (aka Spring Tools).

STS3 and Spring Tools share some features

The default Spring Tools distribution for Eclipse (aka Spring Tools) comes with several components pre-installed that you are well familiar with from using STS3. Those components/features are:

  • Boot Dashboard
  • Snippet Completion Proposals for Request Mappings
  • Spring Properties and YAML file editing support (although the Spring Tools version is slightly different)
  • Conversion of Spring Properties file to YAML file
  • Spring Starter wizard (https://start.spring.io)
  • Import Getting Started Content wizard (https://spring.io/guides)
  • Quick Search

STS3 features not present in Spring Tools, but have a (better) successor in Spring Tools 4

Request Mappings View

Open Symbol in Workspace features replaces it. Once the Open Symbol in Workspace dialog is opened type @/ to see all Request Mappings in the workspace.

Live Beans Graph View

There is no graph for the Live Beans, but there is information about Live Beans available in a different form:

  • Live Bean data is available via Boot highlights, hovers and Code Lenses in the source code