Microsoft has made it incredibly easy to install Visual Studio Code for Java. A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the ...

Should Visual Studio Code be your next Java IDE ... Type in “spring init” and you’ll see the Spring Initializr Java Support extension. Install it as seen in Figure 1. Once installed ...

Visual Studio Code Java Pack Installer (source: David Ramel). It also helpfully checks for VS Code itself -- very important -- and essential Java extensions, even offering to download and install the ...

Note the call stack and the local variables at left. Overall, Visual Studio Code is very good as a Java IDE if you install the Extension Pack for Java. It’s merely OK as a Java editor without ...

The development team behind Visual Studio Code mentions this on the download page ... of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and ...