Create Spring Boot Project in Spring Tool Suite

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 a 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 in the Spring Tool Suite (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