Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Creating the CMS application structure

Now we will create our first application with the Spring Framework; we will create a basic structure for the CMS application with Spring Initializr. This page helps to bootstrap our application, it's a kind of guide which allows us to configure the dependencies on Maven or Gradle. We can also choose the language and version of Spring Boot.

The page looks like this:

In the Project Metadata section, we can put the coordinates for Maven projects; there is a group field which refers to the groupId tag, and we have artifacts which refer to the artifactId. This is all for the Maven coordinates.

The dependencies ...