Create the Maven Project

[tekslate trainings]

To quickly get up a new Spring Project, I recommend the awesome Spring Initializr website. There you can easily enter the dependencies you need for your project.

We need the following Spring dependencies:

spring-boot-starter-security
spring-boot-starter-web
mysql-connector-java
Secondly, we also need to add the Speedment dependency as well as the Speedment plugin to generate our code. There is also a Speedment Initializer that I recommend using, It will produce something like this:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.speedment</groupId>
  <artifactId>runtime</artifactId>
  <version>${speedment.version}</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency> 
... 
<plugin>
  <groupId>com.speedment</groupId>
  <artifactId>speedment-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${speedment.version}</version>
</plugin>

[Marco Behler]

Is this going to be a tutorial thread?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

Moving to our Spring forum. You appear to have posted the same post twice, so I deleted one unnecessary copy.

[Peter Rooke]

What's wrong with the command line?  

spring init --dependencies=web,data-jpa my-project

[Tim Holloway]

Peter Rooke wrote:What's wrong with the command line?  

spring init --dependencies=web,data-jpa my-project

Spring Roo?

[Peter Rooke]

Spring Roo died a few years back.   Spring Boot CLI

[Tim Holloway]

Ah. I tried it. Twice. Never got into it.

[Peter Rooke]

Yeah, I never really got into Spring Roo.  Seemed like another code generation tool, where I didn't always like (understand) the code it produced.

Spring boot seems to have got it right, take an opinionated viewpoint.   After all, I'll guess that most projects have similar features, with only a few exceptions.  The trick is to allow developers to have enough flexibility to develop the unique parts of their systems but to allow the framework to use best practices.  Ikea Effect.

Sadly I don't get to play with spring boot (much) at work.  

[Tim Holloway]

That's my impression of Roo, too.

Anyway, my typical spin-up of a Spring project is to either use a Maven archetype or to clone an existing project, if I have a suitable model already.