1. Starting a springframework project

The best way to start a spring framework project is to use the spring initializer to do that. Visit Spring Initializer website. Provider values for group and artifact and select the dependencies that you want to initialize with. To start with you can start with minimum dependencies and then add them later on. These are just maven dependencies.

Here I have selected Web and Security to start with. Now we click on Generate Project. It downloads a zip file which is the starting project. We unzip the file and then we run following command.

$ mvn clean package -DskipTests

 It will download the dependencies and then compile the project. The finally built jar file is in the tutorials/target directory and is named tutorials-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar. The name is created using the version number defined in the pom.xml file generated. We can run the project by running following command.

$ java -jar target/tutorials-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

It will run the project and the following output is displayed. The last line tells us that the project launch is successful.

So here it is. Our first springframework project.