The Eclipse based STS IDE isn’t a requirement for Spring Boot development, but it is highly recommended. Its step-by-step wizards make the creation of your first Spring Boot application significantly ...

This will be familiar if you’ve used Eclipse; it’s the same hotkey ... Right-click on the DemoApplication file and select Debug. Spring Boot will run in debug mode. Open MyController and ...

and was ahead of many in recognizing Eclipse's appeal. It seems clear that Oracle sees rapidly building interest by Spring and other framework developers for use of the Java persistence runtime.