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This example shows how to create a Spring Boot Project.

We need to have a pom.xml at the root directory of our application. This file specifies this project is based of spring-boot-starter-parent

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.6.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

Now, we add a dependency spring-boot-starter to pull in a boot project so that we can run a simple application.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Install the application using

mvn install

Run the application using the command

mvn spring-boot:run abcd

We can see output like

INFO 10868 --- [           main] com.example.demo.DemoApplication         : Program has arguments: abcd
INFO 10868 --- [           main] com.example.demo.DemoApplication         : Input: abcd
INFO 10868 --- [           main] com.example.demo.DemoApplication         : Output: dcba