What is the difference between Eclipse with Spring IDE plugin and Spring Tool Suite alone?

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Captain Man picture Captain Man · Apr 20, 2015 · Viewed 50.2k times · Source

What's the difference between these

I ask because STS says it's built on top of Eclipse, and I wonder what differences it has over simply using a plugin that adds similar functionality to "vanilla" Eclipse.

Answer

Leandro Carracedo picture Leandro Carracedo · Apr 20, 2015

It's true, STS is built on top of Eclipse. The difference is only related to another products support from the STS installation, like Roo, Pivotal tc Server, Cloud Foundry and getting started guides, but you could also include this features in your Eclipse installation.

So STS gives a complete solution around Spring features and simplifies the developer environment install, that's the key difference.

As Martin Lippert explains in the forums:

"So you can end-up having the same features in STS and your existing Eclipse installation after installing the STS features into it."

You could find more details on the Spring forums.

Details on features: STS features and Spring IDE plugin features.

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