From the course: Creating Your First Spring Boot Microservice

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Project setup

Project setup

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Project setup

- [Instructor] So let's create our first Spring Boot project with Spring Initializer. First, we open a browser and navigate to start.spring.io. We're going to select a Maven Project. You can choose Gradle if you are more comfortable with it, but in this tutorial, we will use Maven. Use the latest version of Spring Boot, and the group will be called calm.example.ec. And for Explore California, the artifact will be explorecali. Let's click options, and for description, we'll put Explore California Microservice. And the package name will be just com.example.ec. We're going to keep it a Jar file, and for this we're going to use Java13. I'll show you later if you want to change the Java version, but this is what's showing right now on Spring Initializer, which are the latest and greatest. This UI changes from time to time, so they may have different options later, but this is what's being built for our exercise files. And next…

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