We will start with building our first Spring Boot application in this chapter. We will use Maven to manage dependencies.

The following steps are involved in starting up with a Spring Boot application:

1. Configure spring-boot-starter-parent in your pom.xml file.
2. Configure the pom.xml file with the required starter projects.
3. Configure spring-boot-maven-plugin to be able to run the application.
4. Create your first Spring Boot launch class.

Let's start with step 1: configuring the starter projects.