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Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 315

Creating a Spring MVC Project in Spring Tools 4 (Eclipse)

  1. I installed Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers.
  2. I went to menu Help -> Eclipse Marketplace... and installed "Spring Tools 4 (aka Spring Tools Suite 4)"

My goal is to create a first simple Spring MVC application. So I went to youtube and found a tutorial video. In the video it's proposed to perform the steps New -> Other... -> Spring and the following list should appear:

It's proposed to choose "Spring Project". But I have only two items from that list:

Did I installed anything incorrectly? What am I supposed to choose to create a Spring MVC project (and what options)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5966

Answers (3)

Martin Lippert
Martin Lippert

Reputation: 6508

The list of options to create a project that you mentioned from the video is the list of options that you get when using the old Spring Tool Suite 3.

The new Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse have a reduced set of options to create Spring projects and is focused on Spring Boot based projects. In case you start with Spring nowadays, I would strongly recommend to start using Spring Boot and to get started with a Spring Boot project using one of those two options to create a Spring Boot project that comes with the Spring Tools 4.

The old wizards from the Spring Tool Suite 3 (including the Spring MVC project that you could create from it) is not based on Spring Boot and not what I would recommend to start with.

Upvotes: 0

Badri Paudel
Badri Paudel

Reputation: 1630

I also had trouble with STS 4 and later on I installed 3.9 and it worked just fine. I recommend you downloading STS if you want to build spring / spring boot projects [ not compulsory though ] .

You can see spring legacy project for spring MVC option and it generates a good project structure which comes with ready to run code and standard project structure. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Sanket Singh
Sanket Singh

Reputation: 1366

You can create a Dynamic web project and cpnvert that to maven project if you want or can add dependencies in the classpath yourself as jars.

Otherwise You can create a maven project and add files like web.xml and spring-mvc-servlet.xml yourself.

You can use this tutorial for use as this will give you some ideas how to start a spring mvc project in eclipse. https://crunchify.com/simplest-spring-mvc-hello-world-example-tutorial-spring-model-view-controller-tips/

Upvotes: 1

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