Spring Initializr

It is a web tool which is provided by Spring on official site. You can create Spring Boot project by providing project details.

Select Maven project and dependencies. Fill other details and click on generate project.

After clicking it asked for download project.

Save project and extract it.

Now import this project by using import option from the STS (Spring Tool Suite) IDE.

Importing project

Select project type in Maven.

Select source project

After finishing, our Spring Boot Project should look like this.

It has a pom.xml file which contains all the dependencies and configuration for the project. It should look like this.

// pom.xml

<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectxmlns="https://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"xmlns:xsi="https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="https://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>com.javatpoint</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-boot-example3</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<packaging>jar</packaging>
	<name>spring-boot-example3</name>
	<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
	<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
		<relativePath/><!-- lookup parent from repository -->
	</parent>
	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
	</properties>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
	<repositories>
		<repository>
			<id>spring-snapshots</id>
			<name>Spring Snapshots</name>
			<url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
			<snapshots>
				<enabled>true</enabled>
			</snapshots>
		</repository>
		<repository>
			<id>spring-milestones</id>
			<name>Spring Milestones</name>
			<url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
			<snapshots>
				<enabled>false</enabled>
			</snapshots>
		</repository>
	</repositories>
	<pluginRepositories>
		<pluginRepository>
			<id>spring-snapshots</id>
			<name>Spring Snapshots</name>
			<url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
			<snapshots>
				<enabled>true</enabled>
			</snapshots>
		</pluginRepository>
		<pluginRepository>
			<id>spring-milestones</id>
			<name>Spring Milestones</name>
			<url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
			<snapshots>
				<enabled>false</enabled>
			</snapshots>
		</pluginRepository>
	</pluginRepositories>
</project>

It also generates a Java file in the src/main/java directory. This file has same name as you mentioned in artifact.

The default created Java file is the below.

// SpringBootExample3Application.java

package com.javatpoint;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringBootExample3Application {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SpringApplication.run(SpringBootExample3Application.class, args);
	}
}

We can run this project by selecting Java Application from run options . After running, it produces the following output.

Observe the line Started SpringBootExample3Application in 16.345 seconds (JVM running for 19.909). It shows that the Spring Boot application has started.

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