# STS4

The all-new Spring Tools for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Learn more at https://spring.io/tools.

## Getting started

### Installation

Depending on your development environment, you can choose between:

- __Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution:__ a ready-to-use distribution of the latest Eclipse Desktop IDE, prepackaged with Spring Tools and a few additional third-party extensions. Download, unpack, and start.
- __Spring Tools for Eclipse extensions:__ you can install the Spring Tools for Eclipse into an existing Eclipse Desktop IDE installation and use it from there.
- __Visual Studio Code:__ We provide extensions for Visual Studio Code if you prefer this lightweight editor for your development.
- __Eclipse Theia:__ You can install the same extensions into Theia-based environments like gitpod.

For all those choices, you can find detailed installation instructions from the user guide:
https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Installation

## User documentation

The project wiki contains a comprehensive user documentation:
https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki

## Ask questions

Please ask general questions on StackOverflow and tag them with `spring-tools-4`:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=spring-tools-4

## Raise an issue

Please raise issues by creating a new GitHub issue at:
https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues

## Contributing

Find details about how to contribute:
https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.adoc

### Code of Conduct

Please see our https://github.com/spring-projects/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

### Reporting Security Vulnerabilities

Please see our https://github.com/spring-projects/.github/blob/master/SECURITY.md