Create Spring Boot Project With
Spring Initializer
author: Ramesh Fadatare
In this article, we will learn how to create a simple Spring boot project
with Spring Initializr.
Spring Initializr is a great tool developed by spring team to quickly
bootstrap your Spring Boot projects.
There are many ways to create a Spring Boot application. The simplest way is
to use Spring Initializr at http://start.spring.io/, which is an online Spring
Boot application generator.
In this article, we will create a simple Spring boot hello world tutorial project
using Spring Initializr tool and import in eclipse IDE.
Create Spring Boot Project With Spring
initializer
Below gif image gives you step by step process to create a Spring boot project
using Spring Initializr.
As shown in the image above, let's create a spring boot project step by step.
Step 1. Launch Spring Initializr
using https://start.spring.io link
Step 2. Specify Project Details
Look at the above diagram, we have specified following details:
Generate: Maven Project
Language: Java
Java Version: 1.8 (Default)
Spring Boot: 2.1.4
Group: net.javaguides.springboot
Artifact: springboot-helloworld-tutorial
Name: springboot-helloworld-tutorial
Description: Demo project for Spring Boot
Package Name :
net.javaguides.springboot.springboothelloworldtutorial
Packaging: jar (This is the default value)
Dependencies: Web, JPA, MySQL
Once, all the details are entered, click on Generate Project button will generate
a spring boot project and downloads it. Next, Unzip the downloaded zip file
and import it into your favorite IDE.
3. Import project in Eclipse
In Eclipse, Click File -> Import -> Existing Maven Project as shown below.
Navigate or type in the path of the folder where you extracted the zip file to in
the next screen.
Once you click Finish, Maven would take some time to download all the
dependencies and initialize the project.