From the course: Creating Your First Spring Boot Microservice
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Introduction to Spring Initialzr
From the course: Creating Your First Spring Boot Microservice
Introduction to Spring Initialzr
- [Instructor] In this chapter we will see how to create a Spring Boot microservice with Spring Initializr. To build a Java application, the first step is to create a Java project. Most Java projects rely on a third party archive dependencies and these third party archives usually have dependencies of their own. On top of that, each version of the dependencies rely on other versions. Managing all these dependencies is a nightmare that Java developers have nicknamed JAR hell. To avoid JAR hell we use dependency management systems like Maven or Gradle, but even with Maven and Gradle versioning between individual .jar files can be a nuisance. Spring Boot recognizes this and created the notion of a Spring Boot starter, which bundles several dependencies into a grouping that is easier to manage. There is a lot, and I mean a lot, of Spring Boot starter dependencies, so even cobbling together a project on your own can be…
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