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Tutorial: Explore Spring support features

Last modified: 11 December 2024

This tutorial expands on Tutorial: Create your first Spring application to show how IntelliJ IDEA can help you write code, analyze your Spring application, and manage it at runtime. The tutorial assumes that you start with a simple Spring Boot Maven project generated with Spring Initializr. It should already have the Spring Boot Starter Web dependency for building web applications.

This tutorial guides you through steps that cover the following:

  • Add dependencies for JPA and H2 that enable your Spring application to store and retrieve relational data

  • Write and examine your code

  • Run your application and execute HTTP requests

  • Add Spring Boot Actuator for advanced health monitoring and endpoint analysis

  • Add Spring Boot Developer Tools for faster application updates