Time for action – installing Spring Tool Suite

STS is the best Eclipse-powered development environment to build Spring applications. Let's take a look at how we can install STS:

  1. Go to the STS download page at http://spring.io/tools/sts/all.
  2. Click on the STS installer .exe link to download the file that corresponds to your windows operating system architecture type (32 bit or 62 bit); this will start the download of the installer. The STS stable release version at the time of writing this book is STS 3.4.0.RELEASE based on Eclipse 4.3.1.
  3. Once the download is finished, go to the downloaded directory and double-click on the installer; this will open up a wizard window.
  4. Just click through the next buttons in the wizard, leaving the default options alone; ...

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