Figure A-9. STS installation: step 8
At this point, the installation of the stand-alone version of STS is complete. Click Finish.
Installing STS to an Existing Eclipse Environment
Another way to set up STS is to extend an existing Eclipse installation. In the following example, we will
demonstrate installing STS onto an existing Eclipse (version 3.7.1) setup. Eclipse comes in various
bundles. For this example, the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers version is used (please refer to the web
install some Eclipse plug-ins required by STS.
To install the Maven plug-in for Eclipse, choose the menu item Help ➤ Install New Software in
Eclipse. Click the Add button, enter the name (m2e) and the update site URL
component to install, as shown in Figure A-10.
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