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Get started with Spring Boot and Kotlin

Edit pageLast modified: 22 February 2023

Get started with Spring Boot and Kotlin by completing this tutorial: it walks you through the process of creating a simple application with Spring Boot and adding a database to store the information.

Going through these four steps, you'll learn a lot of essential features of the Kotlin language:

First step Create a Spring Boot project

Second step Add a data class to Spring Boot project

Third step Add database support for the Spring Boot project

Fourth step Use Spring Data CrudRepository for database access

Next step

Start by creating a Spring Boot project with Kotlin using IntelliJ IDEA.

See also

Look through our Java to Kotlin (J2K) interop and migration guides:

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