Spring STS (STS) Conflicts with WebSphere Development Tools for Eclipse (Wasdev WDT) - Spring features disappear

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34031590/spring-sts-sts-conflicts-with-websphere-development-tools-for-eclipse-wasdev

My problem is that as soon as I add the WebSphere Developer Tools 8.5.5 for Mars into Spring STS some of the spring features disappear. The first feature I noticed missing was "Spring Starter Project" under Right Click -> New. I thought it had just disappeared so I tried New -> Other and found that only "Spring Bean Configuration File" existed.

Any help in resolving this conflict is greatly appreciated.

I am using Spring STS in an environment where the I have some applications that deploy to a weblogic environment and other applications that deploy to a WebSphere environment. I am trying to setup and environment that combines all the plugins I use into one development environment.

Here's the "what I think are relevant" parts of my configuration: OS: RHEL 6.5 JDK: IBM 8.0.2.0 STS: 3.7.2 - full eclipse archive from spring tools website WDT: 8.5.5.7 for Mars from the eclipse marketplace

Spring sts is installed on a partition mounted at /app STS location is /app/devtools/sts-bundle JDK is installed under /app/devtools/sts-bundle/sts-3.7.2.RELEASE/jre WDT is installed using the eclipse marketplace

I have tried installing WDT into the "dropins" folder, but experience the same issue.

Thank's in advance.