Appendix A Creating the Spring Boot project
This appendix presents a couple of options to create a Spring Boot project. The examples I show in this book use Spring Boot. Even though I assume that you have some basic experience with Spring Boot, this appendix serves as a reminder of what your options are to create the projects. For more details about Spring Boot and creating Spring Boot projects, I recommend the fun and easy to read book Spring Boot in Action by Craig Walls (Manning, 2015).
In this appendix, I present two easy options for creating your Spring projects. After creating your project, you can choose (at any time) to add other dependencies (by changing the pom.xml file in the case of Maven projects). Both options create projects with predefined Maven parents (if that’s what you chose), some dependencies, a main class, and usually a demo unit test.
You could do this manually as well, by creating an empty Maven project, adding the parent and dependencies, and then creating a main class with the @SpringBootApplication annotation. Although, if you choose to do so manually, you’ll probably lose more time for each project than with one of the presented options. Even so, you can run the projects I provide with this book with the IDE of your choice and I don’t encourage you to change the way you are used to for running your Spring projects.
A.1 Creating a project from start.spring.io
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Figure A.1 A partial view of the Spring Initializr page. It offers a light UI that you can use to create a Spring Boot project. In the Initializr, you select the build tool (Maven or Gradle), the language to use (Java, Kotlin, or Groovy), the Spring Boot version and dependencies to download the project as a zip file.
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Figure A.2 An existing Maven project can be opened from any programming environment. Once you’ve created your project with start.spring.io and downloaded it, unzip it and open it as a Maven project from your IDE.
A.2 Creating a project with the Spring Tool Suite (STS)
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Figure A.3 Some IDEs let you directly create Spring Boot projects. They call start.spring.io in the background and then download, unzip, and import the project for you.
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Figure A.4 When creating the Spring Boot project directly from the IDE, you need to choose the same options as on the start.spring.io page. The development environment asks you about the build tool option, preferred language, version, and dependencies among other things.
