

Open your Spring Tool Suite, and choose New -> Spring Project.If you are behind a proxy, please refer to this tutorial. Make sure that you have internet connection. Maven also would like to download some dependencies for Spring. You need to download some project templates from Spring repository. I prefer to download the archive version because of its portability.įor the first time creating a Spring MVC project, internet connection is REQUIRED. Please choose the file according to your OS. Spring Tool Suite (STS) for Java EE ( ).Maven can automatically download the required dependencies for your project.

Maven is a build tools (or automation tools) for Java project. In this article I will show you how to create your first J2EE applications using Spring Framework and Maven build.
