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The next generation of tooling for Spring Boot, including support for Cloud Foundry manifest files, Concourse CI pipeline definitions, BOSH deployment manifests, and more... - Available for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Eclipse, and Theia

From spring-projects·Updated June 13, 2026·View on GitHub·

The all-new Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and Theia. Learn more at https://spring.io/tools. The project is written primarily in Java, distributed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 license, first published in 2016. Key topics include: eclipse, spring, spring-boot, sts4, theia.

Latest release: 5.2.0.RELEASE
June 10, 2026View Changelog →

Spring Tools

The all-new Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and Theia. Learn more at https://spring.io/tools.

Getting started

Installation

Depending on your development environment, you can choose between:

  • Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution: a ready-to-use distribution of the latest Eclipse Desktop IDE, prepackaged with Spring Tools and a few additional third-party extensions. Download, unpack, and start.
  • Spring Tools for Eclipse extensions: you can install the Spring Tools for Eclipse into an existing Eclipse Desktop IDE installation and use it from there.
  • Visual Studio Code: We provide extensions for Visual Studio Code if you prefer this lightweight editor for your development.
  • Eclipse Theia: You can install the same extensions into Theia-based environments like gitpod.

For all those choices, you can find detailed installation instructions from the user guide:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/wiki/Installation

User documentation

The project wiki contains a comprehensive user documentation:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools4/wiki

Ask questions

Please ask general questions on StackOverflow and tag them with spring-tools:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=spring-tools

News and updates

You can also find the project here (for everything related to the Spring Toos):

Raise an issue

Please raise issues by creating a new GitHub issue at:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/issues

Contributing

Find details about how to contribute:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.adoc

Code of Conduct

Please see our https://github.com/spring-projects/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Reporting Security Vulnerabilities

Please see our https://github.com/spring-projects/.github/blob/master/SECURITY.md

Contributors

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