Easy to download, unzip and navigate to bin. I hate having to decide where to put all these tools though, so I just put it next to my eclipse work-space in my home directory.
Found out a new way to set a PATH variable though:
bla\spring-2.0.4.RELEASE\bin>setx PATH %cd%
%cd% = current directory
Just remember to close and reopen the command prompt window for the changes to take affect when navigating to other windows.
bla\spring --version Spring CLI v2.0.4.RELEASE
I’m following a guide to Spring and Spring Boot on the O’Reilly video guide supplied by Safari Online, and have downloaded the Spring Tool Suite and IntelliJ IDEA. I thought that if I had IntelliJ IDEA I’d be able to follow along with the examples, but it didn’t really work out. I’m not going to pay for my IDE when I’ve always used Eclipse anyway, so I upgraded from Oxygen to Photon and made sure I was using the new version of STS too, 3.9.5.
Thanks for joining me!
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