Question about Spring 6 and Netbeans

Hi Everyone,

I have been banging my head on this issue for some time and am hoping someone can give me a hand.

I’ve been using Netbeans 8 for my Java Development for years, stayed on that version as I remained on Java 8. I have recently started looking at upgrading to a more modern Java. One of the biggest issues I am running into is upgrading from JavaEE8 Web Applications running Spring MVC to Jarkata. Is there a step-by-step guide on how to do this with Netbeans? I’ve been using ant for all my projects, which makes it even more challenging… 😭

My current dev setup is as follows:

Netbeans 25
Tomcat 9
Java 21 LTS

I can’t move up to Tomcat 10 because all my web Apps are still in the old JavaX namespace. From what I can tell, the Spring MVC framework that came with Netbeans has been upgraded to 5.3.31 over the years, but I can’t seem to locate Spring 6, is there a way to introduce Spring 6 to Netbeans? While I am updating my Java8 projects to Java21, is there anything I need to watch out for?

Thanks in advance, and any suggestions will be appreciated.
Sc.