Adding Spring Boot to our main project

We will use Java 11 to develop microservices. Therefore, we'll use the latest Spring Framework and Spring Boot project. At the time of writing, Spring Boot 2.1.0 M2 release version is available.

You can use the latest released version. Spring Boot 2.1.0 M2 snapshot uses Spring 5 (5.1.0 M2 release).

Now, let's take a look at the following steps and learn about adding Spring Boot to our main project:

  1. Open the pom.xml file (available under Chapter2 | Project Files) to add Spring Boot to your sample project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 ...

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