How to install Spring IDE in Eclipse

Spring IDE is a very useful graphical user interface tool adding support for Spring Framework. In this tutorial, we show you two ways to install Spring IDE in Eclipse.

Version used in this tutorial :

  1. Spring IDE 2.9
  2. Eclipse 3.7
Spring IDE or SpringSource Tool Suite (STS)?
Refer to this Spring IDE vs STS pdf file for feature comparison. Personally, I go for Spring IDE for one reason – just can’t let go my existing Eclipse, too many plugins installed.

1. Install New Software

Classic way, Eclipse IDE, click “Help” -> “Install New Software…”. Type “http://springide.org/updatesite” to access the Spring IDE update site.

Select all the Spring IDE features you want to install.

spring ide install new software

Take long time to install and restart Eclipse after finished.

2. Eclipse Marketplace

This is the prefer way, because you no need to remember the long Spring ide update URL. In Eclipse IDE, click “Help” -> “Eclipse Marketplace“, type “Spring IDE“, follow the wizard to finish the installation.

spring ide eclipse marketplace

Same, take long time to install and restart Eclipse after finished.

References

  1. http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts
  2. http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/spring-ide
  3. http://download.springsource.com/release/STS/doc/STS-feature_comparison.pdf

33 comments on “How to install Spring IDE in Eclipse

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  2. when i m installing the spring IDE the following error is coming

    Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
    Software being installed: SpringSource Tool Suite Runtime Error Analysis Support 2.6.0.201103161000-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.runtimeerroranalysis.feature.group 2.6.0.201103161000-RELEASE)
    Missing requirement: SpringSource Tool Suite Runtime Error Analysis Support 2.6.0.201103161000-RELEASE (com.springsource.sts.runtimeerroranalysis.feature.group 2.6.0.201103161000-RELEASE) requires ‘com.atlassian.connector.eclipse.jira.feature.group 0.0.0’ but it could not be found

  3. please note, that starting from 05/20/2010 to access the Spring IDE update site one must type ‘http://dist.springframework.org/release/IDE’ ‘http://springide.org/updatesite’

    1. one must type ‘http://dist.springframework.org/release/IDE’ INSTEAD OF ‘http://springide.org/updatesite’
      I am sorry to be so inaccurate at first 🙂

  4. thanks … i was trying to install spring plugin in eclipse 3.5 .. and was fighting .. but i saw this site i got success. what is your next plugin link…..

  5. I have some query regarding Spring Tool Suite. Does it support struts 1.x and hibernate out of the box? Right now i am using Eclipse galileo with JBOSS Tools, so the support for struts 1.x and hibernate is quite good. So i am wondering if i can get the same support in Spring Tool Suite or not.
    Can anybody kindly help me in this regard? Any link will be much appreciated. Thank you.

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