Creating a Spring Boot project using Kotlin

We will use Spring Initializr (http://start.spring.io) to initialize a Kotlin project. The following screenshot shows the Group and ArtifactId to choose from:

The following are a couple of important things to note:

  • Choose Web as the dependency
  • Choose Kotlin as the language (second drop-down at the top of the screenshot)
  • Click on Generate Project and import the downloaded project into the eclipse as a Maven project

The following screenshot shows the structure of the generated project:

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