Is VS Code compulsory?

[nithin-mk]

Is it compulsory to install VScode Spring Boot extension in Visual Studio Code accoording to the README? If I don't have VS Code, would spring-boot.nvim be able to download the required Spring Tools 4 files and work by itself?

[JavaHello]

It will not be downloaded automatically. If you do not use vscode, you need to manually download the compiled jar.

[nithin-mk]

Thank you for your reply. From which website can I download the JAR from - VSCode Marketplace or Spring Tools website?

[JavaHello]

You can directly download the vscode spring-boot-tools plugin and unzip it, or download the sts4 project and compile it.

[jonathan-elize]

I got around this by using what nvim-java does. The author of nvim-java made a mason regsitry that would get you the jars needed.

In all this is what I did:

1. I updated my mason.setup call to also use the nvim-java repository as a source:

require("mason").setup({
    registries = {
        "github:mason-org/mason-registry",
        "github:nvim-java/mason-registry",
    },
})

2. I installed spring-boot-tools through :Mason
3. I added the bundle of jars to my nvim-jdtls setup accordingly:

local spring_path = require("mason-registry")
    .get_package("spring-boot-tools")
     :get_install_path() .. "/extension/jars/*.jar"
local spring = vim.split(vim.fn.glob(spring_path), "\n", {})
vim.list_extend(bundles, spring)

[nithin-mk]

@jonathan-elize Thank you!