Using STS

Now you have a basic understanding of what STS can do for you. In this section, we will discuss some other areas of STS, such as installing extensions and managing tc Server.

Installing STS Extensions

STS comes with a basic set of plug-ins, including those for AOP, Spring Beans, Security, Web Flow support, and so on. On top of those plug-ins, STS also provides a lot of extensions that support the development of Spring-based applications or integration with other popular tools and frameworks.

To see the available extensions and install those you require, first open the Spring Dashboard view. A quick way to open the view is to click the Dashboard icon in the toolbar, as shown in Figure A-25.

Figure A-25. The icon for opening the Dashboard view in STS