Mastering Spring Boot 2.0

Manually installing from a downloaded distribution

Spring Boot CLI can be downloaded from the official site of Spring Framework:

• https://repo.spring.io/snapshot/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-cli/2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-boot-cli-2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
• https://repo.spring.io/snapshot/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-cli/2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-boot-cli-2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz

These sites offer manual installation through CLI distributions from the Spring software repository. Once you've downloaded the distribution from the site, there is a text file in it by the name of INSTALL.txt. It contains instructions on how to install the Spring Boot CLI. In short, there is a Spring script in bin/directory which is ...