

Stop your Tomcat if it is running in your Tomcat bin folder through. Settings include changes you need to make to your Tomcat and configurations you need to do on your IntelliJ community edition. While your tomcat will be running on a port (Tomcat default is 8080), you also need to setup another port for the debugger to attach itself to your running version of Tomcat (9999 in our example). You instance of Tomcat must be already up and running for the Community version to be able to attach itself to the Tomcat process. Although it can be useful for monitoring purposes through JConsole ( read more). JMX related settings is not needed to enable your debugging. This is a remote monitoring and management tool for Tomcat. It is possible to get your IntelliJ Community version to do the same thing for you with a little bit of extra settings. So that’s all about the creating spring boot project with IntelliJ IDEA, if you found this post helpful share it with your friends and collegues.If you have worked with IntelliJ Ultimate edition you have seen that it is possible to add a Tomcat configuration where you can both debug or run your Tomcat container from within IntelliJ. The last step is to run the project by clicking the run button available at the top The project will open in IntelliJ and it will download all the dependencies from the internet. On click of next, it will ask us to enter the project locationĬhoose the location and click Finish to create the project.

At the time of writing this post, the latest version of spring boot is 2.4.2, and select the Spring Web dependency On click of next, it will ask us to choose the spring boot version and select dependencies. Package name: in.bushansirgur.springboot.On click of next, it will ask us to enter the project details On the next screen, from the side menu choose spring assistant plugin which we installed earlier Once the plugin is installed, IntelliJ ask you to restart the IDE to reflect the changesĪfter restarting the IDE, on the home screen click on the New project Next in the search box search for spring assistant, and choose the first plugin to install it

Once the installation is done, open IntelliJ and click on the plugins option The installation is pretty straight forward. It is available for windows, mac, and Linux. First, download and install the IntelliJ IDEA community edition software from the website The community edition is free to download.
