Creating a simple application

Now that we have a basic idea of the starters that are available to us, let's go ahead and create our application template at http://start.spring.io.

How to do it...

The application that we are going to create is a book catalog management system. It will keep a record of books that were published, who the authors were, the reviewers, publishing houses, and so forth. We will name our project BookPub, and apply the following steps:

1. First let's switch to the full version by clicking the link below the Generate Project alt + button
2. Choose Gradle Project at the top
3. Use Spring Boot version 2.0.0(SNAPSHOT)
4. Use the default proposed Group name: com.example
5. Enter bookpub for an Artifact field
6. Provide BookPub as a Name for the application
7. Specify com.example.bookpub as our Package Name
8. Select Jar as Packaging
9. Use Java Version as 8
10. Select the H2, JDBC, and JPA starters from the Search for dependencies selection so that we can get the needed artifacts in our build file to connect to...