install spring boot CLI in windows 7

Question

I would like to set up a dev environment on my Windows 7 machine so i can create a spring-boot application. However, i'm having a hard time installing Spring-boot on windows.

This is what i have done so far: -Downloaded spring-boot CLI zip package and unzipped in C drive -JAVA_HOME variable set to c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_14 -SPRING_HOME variable set to C:\\spring-1.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT -Added SPRING_HOME/bin to PATH environment variable

It says to add symlink to auto-completion script but i do not know how to do that. Not surprisingly when i test installation with "spring --version" command, it fails.

Anybody has done this before?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Instructions for setup are bit misleading for path setup.

For Windows, Environment variables section, need use %SPRING_HOME%\\bin referencing in place of SPRING_HOME/bin for the system to pick up SPRING_HOME environment variable.

Where SPRING_HOME is an environment variable for specifying path to the spring boot directory. Eg :- C:\\Program Files\\Spring\\spring-1.2.7.RELEASE

Note: bin folder is not included in the SPRING_HOME .

I was able to get it up, here are screen grabs of process.

Alternatively you can have the path setup directly without SPRING_HOME, just append the environment variable path with directory path of your "spring.bat" file C:\\Program Files\\Spring\\spring-1.2.7.RELEASE\\bin; .

Answer 2

Windows looks in the current directory before searching the path. So, when you're in the bin directory it sees the spring command there and does not look at the path.

Answer 3

1.MANUALLY INSTALLING THE SPRING BOOT CLI
spring-boot-cli-2.0.0.M1-bin.zip is installed.
2.Extract spring-boot-cli-2.0.0.M1-bin.zip.
3.After  spring-2.0.0.M1 extractd.
4. Direct command prompt
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C:\Users\nepl>spring --version
'spring' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\nepl>E:

E:\>cd Nagarjuna

E:\Nagarjuna>cd "spring applications"

E:\Nagarjuna\spring applications>cd spring-2.0.0.M1

E:\Nagarjuna\spring applications\spring-2.0.0.M1>cd bin

E:\Nagarjuna\spring applications\spring-2.0.0.M1\bin>spring -- version
'--' is not a valid command. See 'help'.

E:\Nagarjuna\spring applications\spring-2.0.0.M1\bin>spring --version
Spring CLI v2.0.0.M1
E:\Nagarjuna\spring applications\spring-2.0.0.M1\bin>spring --help

E:\Nagarjuna\spring applications\spring-2.0.0.M1\bin>spring run HelloWorld.groov
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Resolving dependencies......................................................

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