Extracted from Dzone article https://dzone.com/articles/creating-a-spring-boot-project-with-eclipse-and-ma , this is one of the options in creating Spring Boot Projects With Eclipse and Maven
Bootstrap Spring Boot Project With Spring Initializr
Creating a web application with Spring Initializr is a cake walk. We will use Spring Web MVC as our web framework. Spring Initializr is a great tool to bootstrap your Spring Boot projects.
As of August 30, 2019 this is the initial page of https://start.spring.io
In order to generate a Spring IO project, follow these steps:
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Enter the group name.
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Enter artifact name.
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Click the search icon.
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Type in the dependency “Web Starter”
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Click the plus sign to add the dependency.
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Repeat Steps 4 and 5 for “Actuator” and “DevTools”.
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Click the “Generate the project”
This would download a ZIP file to your local machine. Unzip the zip file and extract to a folder.
In Eclipse, click File > Import > Existing Maven Project.
Select the project directory by using the browse button
The project should load successfully. In some Eclipse setup like mine, I had 5 errors that I need to fix before proceeding. First was the Java problems due to JUnit plugin not installed:
- RunWith cannot be resolved to a type
- Test cannot be resolved to a type
- The import org.junit.runner.RunWith cannot be resolved
- The import org.junit.runner.Test cannot be resolved
To install, go to Help -> Eclipse Marketplace. Then type Junit.
- The last Java problem I encountered Unknown Maven Configuration Problem as shown in this screenshot.
This Unknown error description was not helpful enough but I was able to fix this and I will blog later on.
That’s it! You should have a bare Spring Boot project to start with on your Eclipse.
