diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a69e23e6bc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+	"java.import.gradle.enabled": false
+}
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/AbstractSpringJavaPlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/AbstractSpringJavaPlugin.groovy
index 546f507fde6..86092983ecc 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/AbstractSpringJavaPlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/AbstractSpringJavaPlugin.groovy
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractSpringJavaPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
 		pluginManager.apply("io.spring.convention.javadoc-options");
 		pluginManager.apply("io.spring.convention.checkstyle");
 		pluginManager.apply(CopyPropertiesPlugin);
+		pluginManager.apply("io.spring.convention.eclipse");
 
 		project.jar {
 			manifest.attributes["Created-By"] =
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/EclipsePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/EclipsePlugin.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fc229693188
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/io/spring/gradle/convention/EclipsePlugin.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
+ * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ * the License at
+ *
+ * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+ * the License.
+ */
+
+package io.spring.gradle.convention
+
+import org.gradle.api.Plugin
+import org.gradle.api.Project
+import org.gradle.plugins.ide.eclipse.EclipsePlugin
+
+/**
+ * Plugin to tweak .classpath settings so that eclipse/sts/vscode can
+ * be imported cleanly.
+ *
+ * @author Janne Valkealahti
+ */
+class EclipsePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
+
+	@Override
+	void apply(Project project) {
+		project.plugins.apply(EclipsePlugin)
+
+		project.eclipse {
+			classpath {
+				file {
+					whenMerged {
+						// for aspects gradle eclipse integration wrongly creates lib entries for
+						// aspects/build/classes/java/main and aspects/build/resources/main which
+						// never has anything. eclipse/sts don't care, vscode language server
+						// complains about missing folders. So remove those from a .classpath
+						entries.removeAll {
+							entry -> entry.kind == 'lib' && (entry.path.contains('aspects/build/classes/java/main') || entry.path.contains('aspects/build/resources/main'))
+						}
+						// there are cycles and then dependencies between projects main sources and
+						// test sources. Looks like gradle eclipse integration is getting confused.
+						// thus just relax rules so that projects always sees everything from
+						// dependant project.
+						entries
+							.findAll { entry -> entry instanceof org.gradle.plugins.ide.eclipse.model.ProjectDependency }
+							.each {
+								it.entryAttributes['without_test_code'] = 'false'
+								it.entryAttributes['test'] = 'false'
+							}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			jdt {
+				file {
+					withProperties { properties ->
+						// there are cycles and then dependencies between projects main sources and
+						// test sources. Relax those from error to warning
+						properties['org.eclipse.jdt.core.circularClasspath'] = 'warning'
+						properties['org.eclipse.jdt.core.incompleteClasspath'] = 'warning'
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/resources/META-INF/gradle-plugins/io.spring.convention.eclipse.properties b/buildSrc/src/main/resources/META-INF/gradle-plugins/io.spring.convention.eclipse.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..14c67cbb17e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/resources/META-INF/gradle-plugins/io.spring.convention.eclipse.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+implementation-class=io.spring.gradle.convention.EclipsePlugin
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/spring-security-config.gradle b/config/spring-security-config.gradle
index ac076ddd60a..a39d45dd20a 100644
--- a/config/spring-security-config.gradle
+++ b/config/spring-security-config.gradle
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ dependencies {
 	testImplementation 'ldapsdk:ldapsdk:4.1'
 	testImplementation('net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit') {
 		exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
+		exclude group: 'xml-apis', module: 'xml-apis'
 	}
 	testImplementation "org.apache.directory.server:apacheds-core"
 	testImplementation "org.apache.directory.server:apacheds-core-entry"
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ dependencies {
 	testImplementation "org.mockito:mockito-inline"
 	testImplementation('org.seleniumhq.selenium:htmlunit-driver') {
 		exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
+		exclude group: 'xml-apis', module: 'xml-apis'
 	}
 	testImplementation('org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java') {
 		exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'