From the course: Complete Guide to Spring MVC

What you will build and what you need - Spring Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Spring MVC

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What you will build and what you need

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- [Instructor] Now we are going to go through the steps to set up our development environment for building a Hello World Spring MVC application using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. So go on over to jetbrains.com/idea/download, and you should be navigated to the page that we are on now. There are two versions, the Ultimate and the Community Edition. We will be using the Community Edition because it is free, so we definitely want to opt for the free option. The Ultimate does make your life a little bit easier. I do want to call out if you are using the Ultimate Edition, it does already come with framework support for Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud. So the method that we're going to do is going to be more of the roundabout way, a little bit more complicated than just having the integration. However, the route that we're going to take is the free route. So in the Community Edition, when you go to download, I'm using the Apple Silicon version because we're on a Mac. If you have an Intel, then you can use this download. So go ahead and select Download and insert it from your download folder. You can go ahead and pause and get that going. Once you're done, come back, and we will need to download the latest Java version. So we will be using Java 23. This is the latest stable version that is being supported in Spring. So we're just going to go with this one. Go ahead to oracle.com/java/technology/downloads, and then go down here. Same thing if you're on a Mac OS or Windows or Linux, select the one that works for you. I'm going to Mac, and I'm using the Silicon chip, so I will select the ARM64 DMG Installer option. However, if you are on an Intel chip, you can select the x64 option. So go ahead and download the one that works for you. So once that is done, you can go ahead and check what Java version you are on in the terminal. So go ahead and select java --version and confirm that you are indeed on Java 23. So now we have IntelliJ downloaded, we have Java downloaded. And now, go ahead and go into start.spring.io up on your browser. Once you have these three, you are ready for the next step. If you need to pause and let your computer download either IntelliJ or Java, go ahead and do so before moving on to the next video.

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