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Creating a Spring Boot application from start.spring.io

Creating a Spring Boot application from start.spring.io

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Creating a Spring Boot application from start.spring.io

- [Instructor] Writing good tests can be considered an art that is hard to master, but the good news is that the mechanics supporting it are easy to learn. In this lesson, we're going to create our first application, called Students Service, and explore the powerful set of Spring Boot's including libraries that make our tests straightforward and easy to implement. Creating Spring Boot applications can be done in many ways, but one of the easiest is to head off to start.spring.io. This is the initializer web application where we can choose many of the options that we will use to create our first application, called Student Service. We can leave most of default options, like using Maven Project, Java as our language, and latent Spring Boot dependency. Now, we are going to populate the group. Let's use com.linkedin. As an artifact, we need to set it to Student Service. Leave the packaging as a .jar, since with this option we have the benefit of embedded Tomcat, which we will need…

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