To start creating a Spring Boot project, you must first navigate to this website called Spring Initializer. It is an official website by the Spring team that allows you to select the language of the project, the version of Spring Boot, the metadata of the project, and add dependencies easily. For this tutorial, we will select Maven as our build tool and Java as the programming language. By default, the latest version of Spring Boot will be selected. For attentive readers, you may have noticed some versions with SNAPSHOT written next to them. To put it simply, SNAPSHOT versions contain the latest features but are unstable and are generally used for testing purposes rather than production-level code. Next, we will go through the Project Metadata section, examining each field one by one: Group: This is the namespace of your project or the top-level package. The name of the group is most likely to be that of the organization or company that creates the project. It follows the reverse dom...