What is Spring Tool Suite?

STS is a Java Integrated Development Environment specially designed for Spring-based enterprise applications by VMware. It is an open source and we can use it for free. It is an upgraded version of Eclipse IDE but entirely customized to support spring-based projects out of the box.

Spring Tools 4 is the tool for coding. It provides support for developing Spring-based enterprise applications, for this you can prefer Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, or Theia IDE.

Procedure of Installation of STS

• Download the Spring Tool Suite tar from the official Spring Tools webpage.
• Extract the tarball into the Downloads folder.
• Move the tar ball into opt folder.
• Create the soft link and desktop file for ease of launching.
• Run the Spring Tool Suite Application.

Spring Tool Suite, also known as STS an abbreviated version of Spring Tool Suite. In this article, we will discuss Installing the latest Spring Tool Suite on Linux.