Setting-up the development environment
This book recommends the Spring Tool Suite (Eclipse) 3.6 since it has all the Spring Framework 4.x plug-ins, and other dependencies needed by the projects. To start us off, the following image shows the dashboard of the STS IDE:
Conversely, Apache Maven 3.x will be used to build and deploy the project for this chapter. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information (https://maven.apache.org/).
There is already a Maven plugin installed ...
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