#Introduction
Spring offers a Spring Initializr to bootstrap your application quickly The most simple way to use it is to do this :
curl https://start.spring.io/starter.zip -o demo.zipIt will download a demo.zip file to your filesystem that you can extract:
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 50954 100 50954 0 0 38634 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 38660
ls -ltr
total 104
-rw-r--r-- 1 ddewaele staff 50954 May 21 00:54 demo.zipThe zip file contains a complete spring boot application.
unzip demo.zip
Archive: demo.zip
inflating: mvnw
creating: .mvn/
creating: .mvn/wrapper/
creating: src/
creating: src/main/
creating: src/main/java/
creating: src/main/java/com/
creating: src/main/java/com/example/
creating: src/main/resources/
creating: src/test/
creating: src/test/java/
creating: src/test/java/com/
creating: src/test/java/com/example/
inflating: .mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
inflating: .mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties
inflating: mvnw.cmd
inflating: pom.xml
inflating: src/main/java/com/example/DemoApplication.java
inflating: src/main/resources/application.properties
inflating: src/test/java/com/example/DemoApplicationTests.javaYou can customize the cURL command by providing some additional parameters (groupId,artifactId,….)
curl https://start.spring.io/starter.tgz -d dependencies=web,actuator -d groupId=com.ecs -d artifactId=hawkbit.client -d language=java -d type=maven-project -d baseDir=hawkbit.client | tar -xzvf -