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Creating a Spring Boot project using the STS IDE

Spring Tool Suite is one of most popular IDEs for Java developers to develop Spring-based applications. If you don't have STS in your machine, first download the latest version of STS from the following link:

http://spring.io/tools/sts

Let's create a new Spring Boot application in the STS by selecting the New | Spring Starter Project menu item from the File menu. Let's see the following screenshot; STS will present you with a dialog box:

As you can see in the screenshot, this dialog box asks for the same information as the web-based Spring Initializr. So, let's fill it in with the same information, ...

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