How to install Springsource Tool Suite

[Christian Dupuis]

eros,

I just download the springsource-tool-suite-2.3.0.RELEASE-e3.5.1-win32.zip and there is no eclipse.exe inside the

C:\springsource-tool-suite-2.3.0.RELEASE-e3.5.1-win32\springsource\sts-2.3.0.RELEASE

instead....

STS.exe
STSc.exe

As you may have figured already there is no eclipse.exe in STS anymore. Please launch the STS.exe instead.

i've tried but also hard to find for language pack for chinese and japanese environment...

Sorry, we don't offer any language pack for STS.

HTH

Christian

[eros]

thanks sir...

but getting hard right now for webmvc schema error upon Roo removal..
please to my other started thread... thanks again...

[russellbateman]

I can't get STS to start up on my Windows 7 host with 8Gb of memory. Galileo works just fine (separately).

[Christian Dupuis]

russellbateman,

can it be that you installed a 64-bit version of STS and want to run this on a 32-bit JDK or vice versa?

Christian

[russellbateman]

Yeah, my Windows host is 64-bit and I downloaded the 64-bit STS, I think.

Yup, that could be it. There was some confusion when I linked a JDK to STS. I'll look into that. In the meantime, what's best practice? 64-bit STS with 64-bit JDK or just say no to 64-bit and run 32-bit all around? We're still in the days of not everything is 64-bit.

Thanks for the quick response.

Come to think of it, I can't find a 64-bit JDK, only a 64-bit JRE. Where do I look?

[russellbateman]

Works now. I installed the 32-bit version of STS. I suppose there is a 64-bit alternative, but this is what I did and it works.

[russellbateman]

New problem (different Windows 7 platform) that I didn't have last night after installing STS on another host:

STS won't launch because:

"The STS executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library."

Most Eclipse references to this claim a .dll needs to be inside a folder of the same name. These references are pretty old, so I won't chase that goose yet.

[russellbateman]

Hmmm... I wiped, then re-installed, ensuring that STS got installed under C:\Program Files (x86) ('cause I'm installing the 32-bit version) and I had to do it and wipe a couple of times before it took. I was on the point of figuring out that you can't have spaces in the installation path, but it worked the last time I tried, so forget that hypothesis.

[Jigar86]

I have Windows 7 having 32 bit so i download springsource-tool-suite-2.3.2.RELEASE-e3.5.2-win32.zip but when i click on STS.exe that shows "The STS executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library".