Maven Project and Hello Spring Application

Below steps will show how to create Maven project and create a Spring Hello Application :

Step 1

Go to File --> New --> Other  
And select Maven Project as in below screen:



Step 2

Check Create a simple Project




Step 3

Here Group Id is package name and Artifact Id is name of the project




Step 4

Below is the Hierarchy of the Maven Project with pom.xml




Step 5

Create a Class




App.java

package com.sks.spring.test;

public class App {

public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Person p = new Person();
p.speak();
}


}

Person.java

package com.sks.spring.test;

public class Person {
public void speak(){
System.out.println(" I am a person");
}
}

Step 6

Step 7

Double click on pom.xml  and open Dependency tab



Step 8

Click on Add and start searching for springframework  dependencies and select highlighted basic spring dependencies.You can select as per your requirement. If you wont find required dependencies, please go to https://mvnrepository.com/ and add them in you pom.xml




Thats it !!!


Step 9

Now change App.java as below

package com.sks.spring.test;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//
//  Person p = new Person();
//  p.speak();


 ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
 Person person = (Person)context.getBean("person");
 person.speak();

}


}

Step 10

Create spring applicationContext.xml in src/main/resources as below:

<?xml version ="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:int="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       ">

       <!-- here we are injecting the bean in spring context -->

       <bean id="person" class="com.sks.spring.test.Person"></bean>

</beans>


Step 11

Run App.java and see the below output