Missing Spring Properties Yaml Editor and and Spring Properties Editor with Spring Tools 3.9.2

Question

I had installed an earlier version of Spring Tools into an existing Eclipse Oxygen installation and I was able to select and use the Spring Properties Yaml Editor and Spring Properties Editor using the Open With... context menu but since upgrading to Spring Tools 3.9.2 those two editors are missing. Instead now I need to use plain text editors or something like YEdit YAML Editor which doesn't give me any of the nice spring related features.

This is the same question as the first half of eclipse-spring-tools-missing-content-assist-autocomplete but that part of the question was never solved.

If I install a fresh copy of Spring Tool Suite 4 (which is a rebadged eclipse with the same plugin installed by default) then those required editors are present, so this is only a problem when working with Vanilla Eclipse with Spring Tools 3.9.2.

Answer 1

I took a deeper look and I think I figured out what the problem is. Due to a slightly refactored feature structure, the property editing support resides in a different feature now. If you installed STS from the marketplace and updated it to 3.9.2, the feature that contains the property editing did not get installed automatically.

The fix is easy: Go to Install New Software and select the STS update site that you should already have in the list of available update sites. Then expand the Extensions / Spring IDE section and select Spring IDE Boot Support. Install that and you get the property editing support back (and updated with future updates, too).

Answer 2

Updated Fix site for the Autocomplete option for the Spring Boot IDE support.

The fix is easy: Go to Install New Software and select the STS update site (org.springsource.sts.product - http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/3.9.2.RELEASE/e4.7) that you should already have in the list of available update sites. Then expand the Extensions / Spring IDE section and select Spring IDE Boot Support. Install that and you get the property editing support back (and updated with future updates, too).