Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED.3FlOjkfxHvaKbXJ0hu5glA.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Riesbeck Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Good way to learn Spring? Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:04:51 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 3FlOjkfxHvaKbXJ0hu5glA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/69.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:39146 On 9/10/2019 1:19 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote: > On 2019-09-10 20:03, Eric Douglas wrote: >> >> I normally use Eclipse. I just normally right click a project and select Export as jar, so I don't know a lot about build tools like maven or gradle. I think at least one Spring tutorial mentioned a maven setup, so not sure if a build tool is a requirement. > > You will *definitely* want to use either Maven or Gradle for this. > Yes! IDEA (and I assume Eclipse) know how to import Maven and Gradle projects. I like the brevity of Gradle myself. The various Spring Boot guides give the Maven and Gradle files you need, and Spring IO (the Spring Boot project generator) can create either kind for you, to get you started.