Creating Your First Spring Boot Project in Eclipse

Introduction

Welcome to our step-by-step blog on creating your first Spring Boot project in Eclipse. Spring Boot is a popular framework for building Java-based web applications. In this blog, we'll share with you how to create first spring boot project in Eclipse.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites in place:

• Eclipse IDE: Ensure you have Eclipse IDE for Java Developers installed on your system. If not, you can download it from the official website. we have created one blog on how to install eclipse IDE. here is link => install eclipse IDE

Step 1: Create a New Spring Boot Project

1. Create a Spring Boot Project in Spring Initializr.
2. Go to spring.io it will show you below page .

3. create a Spring Boot project. fill in all the details as per your requirement and click on the GENERATE button below. This will download your Spring Boot project in zip format. after download zip, extract the folder into your local system.
4. Import Spring Boot Project in Eclipse IDE

5. Now search Maven and choose the Existing Maven Project then click on the Next button

6. After that click on the Browse button and select the zip file that has been generated from Spring.Io

7. now click on the Finish button and we are done with creating the Spring Boot project. now you can write first Hello World Project in Spring Boot

Let's get started with creating code for Hello World Spring Boot project in Eclipse:

1. Create folder structure like below and run the project.