STS Installation
STS can be installed in two ways. First, SpringSource has prepared a bundled version with Eclipse and
the required plug-ins. Second, if you already have an Eclipse development environment, you can simply
extend it with the plug-ins provided by STS. Either way, make sure you already have a JDK (version 6 or
newer) installed in your PC.
Installing the Stand-Alone Version of STS
The simplest way to install STS is to download the bundle from the STS web site that has Eclipse bundled
with it. So, you need to download the proper version for your development machine from the tools web
available for the Windows platform (note that versions are also available for Mac OS X and Linux).
Figure A-1. Downloading STS stand-alone version
Select the correct version for your computer. For Windows, versions for both 32- and 64-bit
Windows are available. In addition, there are two forms of distribution. One is in Windows installer
format that you can simply click to install, and the other is a zip file that you can extract and use to set up
STS yourself.
We will use the 64-bit Windows installer for our demonstration (the latest stable version at the time
of writing is 2.8.1). It's very straightforward. Upon completing the download, click the executable file to
start the installation. There are several steps for the installation; Figure A-2 shows step 1.
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