After that, your project structure should look like below. You must add Spring Dependencies to this file to configure the application. This project has a pom.xml file that contains configuration and project dependencies. To create the application, we mainly created three files: For more details about creating Maven-based Spring Project read this article Maven Project.Īfter creating a project now, let's create a simple hello spring application. Choose Maven Project because we used maven based spring project.

To create a Spring project, click on the File menu and select Project that further popup several project types such as Maven Project, Dynamic Project, Java Project, etc. After downloading install it to your local system and then run.

To download the STS, you can visit the official site of the Spring or simply use this link(download STS). Let's start by downloading the STS and then creating the application.

It is similar to the eclipse, if you are familiar with the eclipse then you will find it very easy to use.

We can use it to create spring applications. The STS (Spring Tool Suite) is an official IDE provided by the Spring foundation. In this article, we are going to create a Spring project by using the STS tool.

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