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Understanding the project

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Understanding the project

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- [Instructor] So we haven't really done much yet, other than generate a project. So before we get too much deeper, let's spend a moment and talk about what you get with the project created by the Spring Initializr. So I'm going to go ahead and open up the application, and you'll see that we get a .mvn directory, and this includes a wrapper for Maven that you can execute through either the mvnw or mvnw.cmd files. We also get a POM file, and this is probably the most important aspect that we get from this. You'll see that it brought in the starter web as well as starter tests. So you immediately get testing framework for free. But what does starter web really bring in? So I'm going to open up our external dependencies, and you will see, you get a lot of stuff with this. You get some log back, you get some Jackson Marshallers, you get JSON path, which is part of the testing library. You get some Micrometer stuff for metrics. You get some Jakarta libraries needed for building a…

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