Spring Boot Hello World

We will start with building our first Spring Boot application in this chapter. We will use Maven to manage dependencies.

The following steps are involved in starting up with a Spring Boot application:

1. Configure spring-boot-starter-parent in your pom.xml file.
2. Configure the pom.xml file with the required starter projects.
3. Configure spring-boot-maven-plugin to be able to run the application.
4. Create your first Spring Boot launch class.

Let's start with step 1: configuring the starter projects.

Configure spring-boot-starter-parent

Let's start with a simple pom.xml file with spring-boot-starter-parent:

    <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 
     http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">   
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> 
    <groupId>com.mastering.spring</groupId> 
    <artifactId>springboot-example...