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Get started with Spring Boot and Kotlin

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

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See also

If you like to work with AI agents, try our tutorial for creating a task manager application with Spring Boot and Claude.

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

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