Spring Boot is compatible with Apache Maven 3.2 or above. If your machine doesn't already have Java 8 or above, first download Java 8 or above from Oracle's official website:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
And if you don't already have Maven, first download it from https://maven.apache.org/; Ubuntu users can run sudo apt-get install maven. Let's see the following Spring Boot dependencies with the org.springframework.boot groupId:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> ...
