Our extension for Claude Code comes with a nice little skill that integrates Spring Initializr into Claude Code, making it super easy to create new Spring Boot projects right from within Claude Code... 😎🚀

Spring Tools@springtools.bsky.social · last mo.

Out now: Spring Tools for Claude Code 🥳🚀🎉 In case you haven't seen this, we added Claude Code to the family of supported coding environments - bringing Spring related tools and skills to Claude Code. All early stages and experimental, but feel free to give it a try: github.com/spring-proje...

Spring Tools 5.3.0 released for @vscode.dev , Cursor, Eclipse Java IDE 2026-06, Theia IDE, and Claude Code - download from spring.io/tools - for more details: github.com/spring-proje...

Release 5.3.0.RELEASE · spring-projects/spring-tools

important highlights (Spring Boot) Accurate Validation: Fixed false positive lints, inner record bean misdetection, and native query checks. (Spring Boot) Code Modernization: Switched from RestTem...

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Out now: Spring Tools for Claude Code 🥳🚀🎉 In case you haven't seen this, we added Claude Code to the family of supported coding environments - bringing Spring related tools and skills to Claude Code. All early stages and experimental, but feel free to give it a try: github.com/spring-proje...

And the quick fix can not just convert individual references, but several in one go 🥳

Spring Tools@springtools.bsky.social · last mo.

Not using the new type-safe property references in Spring Data yet? We are here to help 😎. Introducing a new validation that flags string-based property references automatically - and provides a quick fix to switch to the new mechanism 🚀🥳

If you would like to know more about type-safe property references in Spring Data, there is a great talk by Mark Paluch, the awesome brain behind this, from Spring IO 2026 about this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5eh...

The Joy of Queries by Mark Paluch @ Spring I/O 2026

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Spring Tools@springtools.bsky.social · last mo.

Not using the new type-safe property references in Spring Data yet? We are here to help 😎. Introducing a new validation that flags string-based property references automatically - and provides a quick fix to switch to the new mechanism 🚀🥳

Not using the new type-safe property references in Spring Data yet? We are here to help 😎. Introducing a new validation that flags string-based property references automatically - and provides a quick fix to switch to the new mechanism 🚀🥳

If you are building MCP servers with Spring AI, having a good tool description can be key for an LLM to pick the right one. So we added a validation that checks for a (configurable) minimum length - just as a first indicator 😀

The new support for Spring AI in the Spring Tools starts with indexing the Spring AI annotations and giving you a nice overview in the outline view as well as the symbols navigation 😎🥳 @spring-ai.bsky.social

The version validation got a new option: in addition to fetching GA version information from spring.io, you can switch to a repository-based resolution, so if you have a company-internal or commercial repository configued, you will see validations based on those versions directly in your IDE 🥳🚀

See the latest and greatest from Spring Tools in action, as @springtools.bsky.social lead @martinlippert.bsky.social gave a talk at JCON 2026 conference - and the recording is available now

Martin Lippert@martinlippert.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Deep insights and ready for AI - Spring Tools 5 in Action" - the recording of my talk at JCON 2026 about the Spring Tools in action is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeR4... 😎🥳

Spring Tools 5.2.0 released for @vscode.dev, Cursor, Eclipse Java IDE 2026-06, Theia IDE - and Claude Code now - download from spring.io/tools - for more details: github.com/spring-proje...

The next Spring Tools release is dropping next week. And it comes with something we're genuinely excited about that maybe surprises you - or maybe not. 😉 Can't wait to ship it. Stay tuned. 👀

Speaking of performance, we also removed the initial delay when opening the new logical structure view in VSCode for the first time. The content now shows up almost instantly 🚀😎

The language server inside the Spring Tools is built as a Spring Boot application, so we went ahead and integrated the option to create a Project Leyden based AOT cache to improve startup speed and reduce memory consumption of the language server process. Feel free to give it a try... 😀🚀

Just in case something from the Spring Tools isn't working as expected and you would like to submint an issue and attach some logs: we made it a lot easier to configure the log level and the log destination when working inside of Eclipse

The wait is over, we finally brought back the "Spring" view category in Eclipse, so you can find all the awesome Spring-specific views there: the logical structure view, the symbols view, and the good old dashboard for all your Spring apps in your workspace 🥳😂

This new validation is awesome, but we don't stop there. Here comes the corresponding quick fix that let's you configure API versioning (both ways, via a WebConfigurer or related Spring Boot properties) without writing everything yourself 🥳😎

Spring Tools@springtools.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The newly introduced API versioning support in Spring Framework 7 is already nicely supported in the @springtools.bsky.social - for example by double checking for a proper configuration when using it 😎

We continued our work on this new bean completion and made it a lot faster... 🚀 And that is just the beginning, additional completion and quick fix speedups coming with the next release 😎

Spring Tools@springtools.bsky.social · last yr.

Auto completion for injecting bean dependencies coming to @springtools.bsky.social - just start typing the name of the bean you would like to use in a method body, and the auto completion will take care of adding a field + constructor injection for you 🥳

Every release introduces new quick fixes to make your life easier when working with Spring projects. This time, we added a quick fix to easily add a configuration class to your Spring Cloud LoadBalancer client annotation - in case this link is missing. Enjoy! 🥳😎

One of the fixes in the recent @springtools.bsky.social release that reduces cognitive load and clutter on the UI: having multiple component-defining annotations on the same class doesn't cause multiple bean symbols being created anymore - for a more precise, clean, and easy-to-use experience 😀

In preparation of "final" really meaning final in an upcoming Java version (see JEP 500), we added a validation that flags the use of final on autowired fields, which works today, but most likely not anymore in the near future - and is not really the recommended way to use autowired anyway 😉 😎

Spring Tools 5.1.2 patch release for @vscode.dev, @cursor.com.web.brid.gy, Theia IDE available now - for more details: github.com/spring-proje... (no updates to the Eclipse-based tools included)

Do you prefer nicely formatted text blocks for your query annotations when using Spring Data? @springtools.bsky.social has an option now to produce exactly those when turning repository AOT metadata into query annotations 😍

In case you haven't seen this in action yet: Spring Data JDBC query annotations now have SQL syntax highlighting and validation as-you-type - proudly brought to you by the @springtools.bsky.social 😎🥳

Another new validation arrived in the latest release of @springtools.bsky.social: now checking for missing configuration annotations on WebMvcConfigurer implementations - and the quick fix is included, too... 🥳

Defining and including your own stereotypes in the new Spring logical structure view has never been easier - with the latest release of @springtools.bsky.social, your catalog files are automatically merged with the defaults, for those not using jMolecules directly 🥳🚀😎

Support for functional web route definitions in @springtools.bsky.social now works for Spring WebMVC as well, understands static methods and builder pattern, visualizes the extracted routes in the symbols + logical structure view, and shows a nice code lens on the handler method 😎🚀

Builder pattern now supported in Spring Tools when analyzing code that defines WebFlux routes in a functional style... 🚀 Now the Spring Tools understand the static methods as well as the builder pattern and visualizes both - for example as a code lens above the handler method definition

Nice improvements coming as part of the Spring Tools 5.1.0 release, including syntax highlighting for SQL statements inside of query annotations for Spring Data JDBC projects... 🥳🚀

Using some of the Spring Cloud components? @springtools.bsky.social now uses spring.io/projects/gen... to verify that your Spring Cloud and Spring Boot versions are compatible with eath other and if not, report mismatches right within your IDE 🥳