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spring icon for components is missing in eclipse editor ruler

Watching the STS 4 Presentation i noticed that these little green spring icons for the beans are actually useful to have in your editor (starting watching from 22:50 to know why). These are the Icons I'm talking about:

[Icons I'm talking about]

However, i dont have them in my eclipse installation (a WTP + STS4 plugins and others) nor do i see them in a current vanilla install and workspace of spring-tool-suite-4-4.5.0.RELEASE-e4.14.0-win32.win32.x86_64.self-extracting.jar.

The only things I see is the eclipse code mining, but no icons, eg: enter image description here

So, has this changed in STS 4 in the meantime (video is from Dec 2017) or what settings do i need to change to make them visible?

Solution

  • This has changed quite a bit since that presentation, so I would recommend to take a look at the user manual for that feature:

    https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Live-Application-Information

    This is up-to-date with the latest Spring Tools 4 release that you mentioned and explains the way to enable and see that live information for Spring apps. Side note: the icons on the side are gone, but the sections in the code are shown with a green background.