Developing Spring Application in Eclipse IDE

 

 

Spring Application Example:

Now that we have installed SpringIDE in Eclipse, let’s explore what we can do using Spring IDE and also create a Spring application. By integrating Spring IDE, we now have a Spring Project Wizard in the New Project option of Eclipse Workbench. We will start our Spring application with a demo project namely springide-demo. This is just to explore the SpringIDE features in Eclipse and not a tutorial on Spring application. This will help in getting started with our detailed tutorial ‘Exploring Spring Framework’ Series.

 

1. Creating a Spring Project:

• Open the New project dialog box by choosing File Menu > New and Choose Spring Project below in the Wizard.

• You will see the New Spring Project Dialog wizard. Here type the project name as “springide-demo” and keep all the options at their default values and click the Finish button.

• This will create a new Spring Project. SpringIDE provides visual indicators in the Package Explorer view which will be shown in Java Perspective. Note the S symbol upon the project name. This is to indicate that this is a Spring project.

 

 

2. Create a working package and class in the project: