STS 4.23.1 - Is not possible apply format in a pom.xml file about sts4 HOT 9 OPEN

There was a similar issue in the past, mentioned here, for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75838857/eclipse-sts-will-not-format-pom-xml - not sure if the issues are related or not, but wanted to reference this here for further investigations.

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Thanks for the reply

According with the SO link this situation is for STS 4.18.1
It is very interesting because I am sure that for

• 4.19.1
• 4.20.1 or 4.21.1

The format feature It worked in peace, thus I has assumed the situation started with either 4.22.1 or 4.23.1.
Yes, I passed directly from either 4.20.1 or 4.21.1 to 4.23.1 (I never used 4.22.1). Even more, all the STS4 versions had the same set of plugins installed, of course according with their own versions.

Do you want I test with plain Eclipse for a particular version? It to discard if the bug is originated with either STS4 or Eclipse

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I did do realize this situation risen here to:

• #1283

but there is no feedback anymore. So I want be the tester

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@manueljordan Thanks a lot for offering your help here, much appreciated. The initial investigation would be to see if this issue appears when using the plain Eclipse 2024-06 JEE package (without any additional plugins installed), so testing that would be awesome.

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@manueljordan I tried a fresh installation of Spring Tools for Eclipse 4.24.0 and that seems to work fine (at least on my end). Can you double check that version as well? That would be great, too.

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Hello @martinlippert

Thanks for the polite feedback. Pls let me do it in detail this weekend. Just in case, in what OS did you install STS4? I am going to do it in Linux Ubuntu. If you consider mandatory indicate me if should be done in Windows - if yes, I can do it for Windows Home 10 too.

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@manueljordan I am using macOS, but that shouldn't matter too much. If you can double check the above mentioned cases on your machine, that would be the first step. If you can reproduce the formatting issue, the next step could be to double check those versions on Windows, but only if you can reproduce the problem on your machine with the above mentioned versions.

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Hello

I downloaded the following installers:

• eclipse-java-2024-06-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
• eclipse-jee-2024-06-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
• spring-tool-suite-4-4.24.0.RELEASE-e4.32.0-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz

Where for each one was:

• unpacked
• has its own JDK embedded
• has its own workspace

Therefore for each one was created a Maven Project and is possible apply the format by either keyboard shortcut or mouse. So far all is OK.

Just in case the plugins installed in STS 4.23.1 are:

• AnyEdit Tools
• Darkest Dark Theme with DevStyle
• DBeaver
• Resource Bundle Editor
• Thymeleaf

What plugin, if is the case, would be generating a possible conflict?

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@manueljordan Thanks for diving into this, looks like we are one step further into the analysis of this. Since the vanilla installs seem to work, I think the most reasonable way to investigate this further would be to take one of those vanilla installs and walk through the list of third-party plugins, install one at a time, and see if the installed plugin causes the issue. At least this would be the way I would approach this.

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