Adding the Spring IDE plugin to your IDE
Eclipse
The following steps add the Spring IDE update site to Eclipse site list, and download the Spring IDE plugin from the site:
- Start Eclipse
- Select Help > Software Updates > Find and Install... to open the Install/Update dialog
- Select Search for new features to install, and click Next
- Click the New Remote Site... button on the upper right
- In the Name field write: Spring IDE
- In the URL field write: http://springide.org/updatesite
- Click OK (This adds the Spring IDE update site to the site list)
- In the site list, mark only the Spring IDE site
- Click Finished to start searching for the plugin
- Select a mirror site near your location (or any), and click Next to start a search
- Mark Spring IDE from the feature result list, and click Next
- Accept the terms and click Next
- Click Finish to install
To ensure that everything worked, select Help > About Eclipse Platform. A green Spring IDE icon should be added to the icon row.
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