Spring Tools for Eclipse

Spec sheet

Purpose

Spring Tools provides development support for enterprise applications using Spring Framework and Spring Boot.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Additional integrations

Optional Eclipse features provide editor support for Cloud Foundry manifest files, BOSH config files, and Concourse CI config files.Read 30 Sep 2026 · github.com

AI support

Spring Tools integrates with AI coding assistants and provides additional context, an embedded MCP server, and code actions.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Code completion

Spring Tools provides smart code completions for Spring elements in an app.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Code navigation

Spring Tools provides an overview of Spring source code and navigation to important parts of Spring apps.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Downloads

The official page lists Eclipse downloads for Linux x86_64 and ARM_64, macOS x86_64 and ARM_64, and Windows x86_64.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Editors

Spring Tools for Eclipse is available as a ready-to-use Eclipse distribution or as extensions for an existing Eclipse installation.Read 30 Sep 2026 · github.com

Language limitation

The Getting Started documentation says Java is supported out of the box, while Kotlin and Groovy projects can be generated without included tooling support for those languages.Read 30 Sep 2026 · github.com

Project creation

The Spring Initializr integration helps users create a Spring Boot app, and the Spring Guides integration provides guides to get started.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Runtime details

Using Spring Boot Actuators, Spring Tools can show runtime details such as bean wiring, conditional reports, and configuration information in the editor.Read 30 Sep 2026 · spring.io

Security reporting

The project repository directs users to its security policy for reporting vulnerabilities.Read 30 Sep 2026 · github.com

Support channels

The project directs users to Stack Overflow for questions and GitHub issues for reporting problems.Read 30 Sep 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Web Development IDEs#36 of 447.5
• Java IDEs#19 of 237.2