Eclipse Marketplace: Spring Tool Suite not showing up?

Issue

I'm learning Spring Boot using a Udemy tutorial, which skips how to install Spring tools to our IDE, so I've been Googling how to do it myself.

There appears to be 2 options: (1) download the Spring Tool Suite 4, which comes with a new version of Eclipse and the Spring tools preinstalled, or, (2) add Spring Tool Suite to my existing Eclipse via searching the Marketplace.

I want to add it to my existing Eclipse Jee Oxygen IDE, as I have other langs and tools installed on it and I want to keep it all in the one place.

I've tried searching for it via the Marketplace wizard in Eclipse, but it doesn't appear.

I've also tried the "Drag & Drop" method using Eclipse.com's marketplace subdomain, and it just opens a new Marketplace wizard without any search parameters.

Does anyone know what could be wrong? Is there another way I can add the tools to my existing Eclipse?

Solution

Oxygen is the 2018 release, and is not one of the supported versions for that Marketplace entry. 2020-12 (4.18), 2020-09 (4.17), and 2020-06 (4.16) are what it lists, which is why it comes up empty when the wizard tries to load it---there's no compatible version of STS4 listed for Oxygen.

Get the current version, 2020-12, or try to update your existing install using the Update Site https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest, then try it again.

Answered By - nitind