Installing Spring tool suite

Question

I am trying to install Spring tool suite.

when I downloaded it from https://spring.io/tools#suite-three, it gave a .jar file like spring-tool-suite-4-4.8.1.RELEASE-e4.17.0-win32.win32.x86_64.self-extracting.jar

How can I install this and use, earlier I use to get .zip file from spring wb site.

Answer 1

The JAR file is a self-extracting JAR file. As long as you have a JRE or JDK installed on your Windows machine, you should be able to double-click the JAR file and it will self-extract the content on disc - which is basically the unzip operation that you did before.

In case the double click doesn't work, you can go to the terminal and execute java -jar spring-tool-suite-4-4.8.1.RELEASE-e4.17.0-win32.win32.x86_64.self-extracting.jar. This will also run the unzip of the content.

Answer 2

First follow all the steps to install Java/JDK on your machine. Once that is done, you should be able to extract the STS folder by simply double clicking the jar file.