Create Spring Boot Project in

Spring Tool Suite [STS]

author: Ramesh Fadatare

In this article, we will see step by step, how to create a Spring Boot project in
STS (Spring Tool Suite).

Download the latest Spring tool suite at https://spring.io/tools.

Download STS for Windows 64-bit at Spring Tool Suite for Windows 64-Bit.
Download STS for Linux 64-bit at Spring Tool Suite for Linux 64-Bit.
Download STS for Mic OS 64-bit at Spring Tool Suite for Mac OS 64-Bit.

Once you download STS as Jar file then double click on it ( make sure you
have installed JDK in your system and set up JAVA_HOME for the same)

Click on the STS icon to STS explorer and choose the workspace.
Create Spring Boot Project in Spring Tool
Suite [STS]
The below gif image shows step by step process to create a Spring boot
project in STS:

Follow the below steps:

1. Right-click in the package explorer and select New ->
Spring Starter Project
2. Specify project details
Look at the above diagram, we have specified the following details:

 Generate: Maven Project

 Language: Java
 Java Version: 1.8 (Default)
 Spring Boot: 2.1.4
 Group: com.springboot.tutorial
 Artifact: springboot-helloworld-tutorial
 Name: com.springboot.tutorial
 Description: Demo project for Spring Boot
 Package Name : com.springboot.tutorial
 Packaging: jar (This is the default value)
  Dependencies: Web, JPA, MySQL, Dev Tools
Once you click Finish, Maven would take some time to download all the
dependencies and initialize the project.
3. Project Structure