IntelliJ IDEA
Be Productive in Spring
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Get started with ease
Create your first Spring application
The IDE provides the Spring Boot project wizard, which integrates with the Spring Initializr API to generate and import your project directly from the IDE.
Write impeccable Spring-based code faster
Smart Code Completion
IntelliJ IDEA provides context-sensitive code completion with the most appropriate suggestions in your Java or Kotlin files and many more situations.
Inspections and quick-fixes
The IDE detects errors and probable bugs in your Spring project, even before you compile and run it, and shows you an explanation and offers fixes.
Reliable refactorings
IntelliJ IDEA offers effective, thorough refactorings – safe Rename and Delete, Extract Method, Introduce Variable, Inline Variable or Method, and other refactorings.
Instant Code Navigation
Navigate around your code with gutter icons that can take you to the relevant application contexts, to declarations of autowired beans, or between publishers and listeners.
You can navigate from client to service by clicking on the corresponding URL in your projects with Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux, and Spring Feign.
IntelliJ IDEA has lots of useful diagrams that can help you analyze your application, and you can jump from each of these diagrams to the Spring element it depicts.
Search Everywhere
Use Search Everywhere (double ⇧ / Shift) to jump to any file, class, or symbol in your project in no time at all. You can even jump between IDE actions and tool windows.
Built-in Developer Tools
Run Spring applications
Access the services you need for developing applications in Spring: run and debug configurations, application servers, database sessions, Docker connections, and so on, all from one place – the Services tool window.
Test Spring applications
IntelliJ IDEA recognizes classes annotated with Spring test annotations as tests and helps you run them from the editor.
You can easily start a bunch of tests right from the Services tool window!
Editor-based HTTP Сlient
Compose, edit, and execute HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, GraphQL queries right in the editor while testing your web service with the integrated HTTP Client.
Database tools
Connect to live databases, run queries, browse and export data, and even manage your database schemas in an intuitive GUI right inside the IDE.
Advanced visualization
Spring Beans Dependencies diagram
View and analyze dependencies between beans in your project with the Spring Beans Dependencies diagram. Find the Spring element you need and jump to it right from the diagram.
Spring Application Context Dependencies diagram
Visualize dependencies between multiple configuration files and analyze how they include and reference each other with the Spring Application Context Dependencies diagram.
Actuator tab
In the Actuator tab you can monitor and manage the state of Spring Boot application in the production environment – the runtime beans of the application, its status, request mappings.
Spring tool window
Here you can view the definitions of the Spring beans used in your project, and see how they are related to other beans, also navigate between Spring components and dependencies.
Endpoints tool window
Get an aggregated view of the client and server APIs, used in your project for HTTP and WebSocket protocols, and generate an HTTP request in the Endpoints tool window.
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Spring framework tutorials
Bootiful Spring Boot 3
Join Spring Developer Advocate, Josh Long, to explore next-gen Spring.
Creating a Spring Boot "Hello World" Application
In this screencast, we’re going to create a simple Spring Boot Hello World application which will display some text locally in our browser.