Tutorial: Create your first Spring application

Last modified: 08 October 2024

This tutorial describes how to create and run a Spring application in IntelliJ IDEA. It will be a Spring Boot Maven project generated by Spring Initializr. This is the quickest way to create a Spring application, and IntelliJ IDEA provides a dedicated project wizard for it. You will learn how to expose an HTTP endpoint and map it to a method that returns a greeting to the user when accessed through a web browser.