February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
325 pages
8h 15m
English
Content preview from Spring Boot: Up and Running
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Chapter 2. Choosing Your Tools and Getting Started
Getting started creating Spring Boot apps is easy, as you’ll soon see. The most difficult part might be deciding which of the available options you’d like to choose.
In this chapter, we’ll examine some of the excellent choices you have available to create Spring Boot applications: build systems, languages, toolchains, code editors, and more.
Maven or Gradle?
Historically, Java application developers have had a few options for project build tools. Some have fallen out of favor over time—for good reason—and now we’ve coalesced as a community around two: Maven and Gradle. Spring Boot supports both with equal aplomb.
Apache Maven
Maven is a popular and solid choice for a build automation system. It has been around for quite some time, having had its beginning in 2002 and becoming a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation in 2003. Its declarative approach was (and is) conceptually simpler than the alternatives of the time and of now: simply create an XML-formatted file named pom.xml with desired dependencies and plug-ins. When you execute the mvn command, you can specify a “phase” to complete, which accomplishes a desired task like compiling, removing prior output(s), packaging, running an application, and more:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><projectxmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" ...
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