How to get started with Spring?

Question

Spring

Wanted to get acquainted with the spring. I bought a book spring in action - started reading. Well written, interesting about dependency injection, AOP.
But it is not written - but how to start working with it? What to download, what to install? The simplest hello world how to write?
PS There is a series of vids on Spring Boot - but is it something else?

Answer 1

Hello!
Believe it or not, I asked myself a similar question a couple of months ago. Yes, there are a lot of materials, but there was no information "how to start".
In general, I started with Spring Boot.
Here, you can quickly build a project. If you are using Intellij Idea Ultimate then it is already there.
https://start.spring.io/
To get started, Web, JPA, Dev Tools, (some kind of database) h2 or mysql, etc. are usually enough, you can lombok. You can then connect Security and other libs as needed ...
For convenience, you can use Intellij Idea or Spring IDE.
For a minimal video start - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH17YkBTpI4&list=P...
The book "Spring in Action" is very informative. True, another set of video tutorials helped me -
https://www.udemy.com/spring-boot-intro/learn/v4/o...
True, everything is pretty chewed up here in order to start developing at least something . A couple of chapters are devoted to how to install sdkman and other IDE programs, etc.
But it all starts with reading the documentation...