How to do it...

To get STS Eclipse 3.8, perform the following steps:

1. After the download, unzip the file using WinZip or 7ZIP to your filesystem.

1. Update its VM usage to enhance performance through making the heap grow to a larger amount by adding the -vmargs command to the eclipse.ini file inside the installation folder, or by appending to the Eclipse shortcut's target property. Following the command are the following Java heap memory configurations:

-Xms512m 
-Xmx1024m 

1. Go to the installation folder <installation_folder>\sts-bundle\sts-3.8.3.RELEASE and run STS.exe.
2. Running STS.exe will result in launching your workspace launcher. Create an Eclipse workspace as shown as follows:

1. Then, you are now ready to create code snippets.