Creating A New Project

Follow these steps to create a new project and add Spring Lemon to it.

1. Create a new Spring Boot project

Create a new Spring Boot project using your favorite method. If you are using Spring Tool Suite (STS), you can use the Spring Starter Project Wizard, which is available at File -> New -> Spring Starter Project.

Fill in the following data there:

• Name: The name of your application, e.g. lemon-demo
• Type: Maven Project (Or gradle)
• Packaging: Jar
• Java Version: 1.8
• Group: The group name, e.g. com.naturalprogrammer.spring
• Artifact: The artifact name, e.g. lemon-demo
• Description: A one line description about your application
• Package Name: Could be something like com.naturalprogrammer.spring.lemondemo
• Boot Version: Choose a version later than or equal to 1.5.0. We have tested it with 1.5.3.
• Dependencies:
  • Database: Say HSQLDB in-memory database for this demo (but you can choose PostgreSQL, MySQL or whatever you want)
  • Core: Optionally DevTools
  • No need to include Security, JPA, Mail and Web; those would be transitively included by Spring Lemon.

Leave other fields to defaults.

2. Add Spring Lemon Dependency

Add to your pom.xml (or build.gradle) the following repository and dependency:

<repositories>
  ...
  <repository>
      <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    ...
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.naturalprogrammer</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-lemon</artifactId>
        <version>0.12.0</version><!-- See https://github.com/naturalprogrammer/spring-lemon/releases for latest release -->
    </dependency>
<dependencies>