Preparing the Spring Web Development Environment

In this chapter, we will go into the details of setting up the development environment for working with Spring web applications. The following are the key areas that we will look into:

• Installing the Java SDK
• Installing/configuring Maven
• Installing the Eclipse IDE
• Installing/configuring the Apache Tomcat server
• Installing/configuring the MySQL database
• Introducing Docker containers
• Setting up the development environment using Docker Compose