Do you want to auto-generate Spring Boot projects? Do you want to quickly get started with developing your application? Spring Initializr is the answer.

Spring Initializr is hosted at http://start.spring.io. The following screenshot shows how the website looks:

Spring Initializr provides a lot of flexibility in creating projects. You have options to do the following:

• Choose your build tool: Maven or Gradle.
• Choose the Spring Boot version you want to use.
• Configure a Group ID and Artifact ID for your component.
• Choose the starters (dependencies) that you would want for your project. You can click on the link at the bottom of the screen, Switch to the full version, to see all the starter projects you can choose from.
• Choose how to package your component: JAR or WAR.
• Choose the Java version you want to use.
• Choose the JVM language you want to use.

The following screenshot shows some of the options Spring Initializr provides when you expand (click on the link) to the full version: