STS3 Migration

Migration Guide from Spring Tool Suite 3 (STS) to Spring Tools 4

Preface

Migrating to the Spring Tools 4 in Eclipse is not complicated or requires a huge amount of work. The overall goal is that most of your projects will "just work" in the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse.

However, the feature set of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse and the overall user experience is quite different. So before you migrate, we recommend that you make yourself familiar with the way the Spring Tools 4 work using a sample project or a project of your choice, read through the user guide for Spring Tools 4 in this wiki, and take a look at the feature comparison between Spring Tool Suite 3 and Spring Tools 4 here.

We would recommend to do the migration in these steps:

1. Make yourself familiar with Spring Tools 4 (as described above)
2. backup your projects and your workspace (including its metadata)
3. start with a fresh Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution (do not update an existing STS3 install)
4. make sure to install all your additional third-party plugins into that fresh install
5. try to open your workspace using the new and fresh Spring Tools 4 installation

Common problems and how to solve them

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