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 ...

Among the large field of generalized, polyglot code editors that have been gaining mindshare, Visual Studio ... see the Spring Initializr Java Support extension. Install it as seen in Figure ...

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 ...