Navigate to Spring Initializr at start.spring.io and select Generate a Maven Project with Java and Spring Boot 2.0.X, where X is the latest Spring Boot version (2.0.3 at time of this writing).

This step-by-step Spring Boot RESTful web services example in Java has very few prerequisites, but it does assume that you have the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) installed. If that's the case, you are ...

The first Java project task is to choose a framework. Here's how to select which one is right for your needs: Spring, Jakarta EE, Quarkus or another option.