Export WAR missing on STS 4.12

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yesterday I updated my STS to the latest version 4.12.0 and today when I wanted to export my project to a .war file, this feature was not there anymore.

Here you can see how it looked on my previous 4.8 version:

I read this issue: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/53 As I do not use maven (our project exists since 2008 and back then we did not use it) I have no way to build a war file anymore or just go back to the previous version... I don't get it, why such an easy way to build war files has been removed?

Any tipps on how I can solve this?

Perhaps this is the ideal time then to move to a maven/gradle build? I cannot really imagine a project without it. If not, did you try the `Install New Software` > `m2e-wtp - Maven Integration for WTP` thing that was adviced on the github issue page? — Nico Van Belle, Oct 22 '21 at 08:09

Carloshf · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-22T08:36:38.073

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After reading some documentation, I found that you need Eclipse for Enterprise Java Development. So just installing this plugin solved the problem:

edited Oct 22 '21 at 08:36

answered Oct 22 '21 at 08:21

Carloshf

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '21 at 08:25

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Adding the war plugin and not using the embedded tomcat might help.Add a servletInitializer and see if it works.

answered Oct 22 '21 at 08:25

prajuwal singh

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Export WAR missing on STS 4.12

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