The Spring company, SpringSource provides a full stack solution for Spring development, including excellent IDE support, SpringSource provides an Eclipse based IDE to speed up the development of Spring project. Install Spring ToolSuite You can download a copy of Spring ToolSuite from SpringSource , and install it into your local disk. Alternatively, you can get a copy of the JEE bundle from Eclipse website and install Spring ToolSuite plugin manually from Eclipse Marketplace. Download the newest Eclipse JEE Bundle from the Eclipse website . Extract the files from the zip archive into your local disk. Start up Eclipse IDE. Open Eclpse Marketplace from Help menu in the IDE menu bar. Search SpringSource to find the Spring ToolSuite plugin. Click Install button and wait the installation done. Restart IDE according to the prompt, and apply the change. Note: In the further content, I will use the words IDE or Eclipse , it refers to Spring ToolSuite or Eclipse...