This tutorial uses the information found in the Serving Web Content with Spring MVC tutorial and Building a RESTful Web Service tutorial.

If you're interesting in learning the Spring Framework in greater detail, checkout the guides found here and read about the core concepts here.

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/alexmancheno/Spring-Boot-Demo.git

2. Change into the root of the application:

cd Spring-Boot-Demo

3. Run the application using Maven:

mvn spring-boot:run

4. Test your app by visiting the home page of the app:

http://localhost:8080

5. Test the RESTful controller that returns JSON:

http://localhost:8080/greeting?name=John&major=ComputerScience

Note: if you don't have Maven installed, use the Maven wrapper instead. Example:

./mvnw 

If you need to grant permissions on Mac for the Maven wrapper:

chmod a+x mvnw

1. Create the JAR using Maven:

mvn clean package

2. Run the JAR file:

java -jar target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar