SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.
com 8888809416
Spring boot First Example
with configurations.
We need to follow some steps to configure spring boot project.
Pre-Requisite:
• Jdk 17
• Latest eclipse
• MySQL – required in future.
To install java and eclipse, follow this document, if you already have latest eclipse and java 8
skip this step.
https://javabykiran.in/core-java/JBKSETUP001-java-eclipse-setup.pdf
Step #1
Open website https://start.spring.io/
Select below details.
pg. 1
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Project Metadata
• Group
o This is a folder where all other spring boot project you want to store.
o enter com.javabykiran
• Artifact
o Your current project name.
o enter basicMicroserviceProject
• Name
o Any name
• Description
o First basic microservice or REST webservice project
• Package name
pg. 2
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
o com.javabykiran.controller
• Packaging
o war: This is to create web project.
o jar: This is to create API project.
o select jar.
• Java
o version 17 we will be using.
o version 17
Click on dependencies.
Add web , devtools
pg. 3
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Step #2
Extract project
Step #3
Import project to eclipse.
pg. 4
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
pg. 5
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Once you click on Select Folder you can see pom.xml will be imported.
pg. 6
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Once click on finish. Wait for dependencies to get downloaded in our project. It
may take few minutes depending upon your internet speed.
Below is project structure after downloading all dependencies. Make sure you
do not have any errors in problem windows. Most of the errors occur if we do
not have proper version of java or maven or eclipse.
Open problem window – window – show view - problems.
pg. 7
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Step #4
Check if out setup is correct.
This is important window as below. For everything you do in eclipse always
keep this window open for seeing any errors.
pg. 8
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Just for time being we will see how errors will look like.
Step #5
It’s time to check if our spring boot project is running correctly.
After running this console should have below output.
pg. 9
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Now it is time to write simple
first webservice.
Step #6
1. Create controller class.
a. This is a class which will be hit by client first.
b. This class takes a request and send response back to client.
i. Response can be json or xml format.
ii. Our focus will be on json format.
2. Use all annotations required for rest API.
a. @Restcontroller
i. This annotation is used at class level.
ii. This is mandatory if we want to create rest webservice.
b. @Requestmapping
i. @getMapping
ii. @postMapping
iii. @putMapping
iv. etc.
pg. 10
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Step #7
Create CustomerController.java as below.
We have not yet added endpoint for our service. So add at method level @RequestMapping
annotation
Go to browser. This is simple service we have created we need to run this
service.
First start a project from main method.
pg. 11
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Check console if you see any exceptions if not go to browser.
In address bar hit url http://localhost:8080/firstservice
pg. 12
SpringBoot-JBKADVSPRINGBOOT3001 thekiranacademy.com 8888809416
Summary
Homework:
Read tutorial from below link to know in depth of spring boot. Screens used might be different
than this, but concept is same.
https://www.jbktutorials.com/spring-boot/introduction-to-spring-boot.php#gsc.tab=0
pg. 13
