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You’re Doing Spring Boot WRONG! Fix Your Folder Structure Like This
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Jun 29, 2025
Do you want to learn how to organize Spring Boot projects? This video breaks down the Spring Boot folder and file structure in order to help you create scalable applications. Learn how to structure your Spring Boot projects for: Efficient Spring Boot with MySQL Spring Boot REST API : A clean and modular Spring Boot . Spring Initializr allows for a seamless setup. This is the essential guide for understanding how to build a real Spring Boot project, whether you are a beginner or an intermediate developer. Topics covered: Spring Boot folder structure Spring Initializr Setup controller, service, repository layer Spring Boot CRUD example REST API with MySQL integration Subscribe to our Spring Boot Tutorials and don't forget your likes, shares, and subscriptions! #SpringBoot #SpringInitializr #SpringBootCRUD #SpringBootRESTAPI #MySQL #JavaDeveloper #SpringFramework
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hi welcome back in our last video we saw
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how to generate the springboard
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application project we have downloaded
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the generated project we have downloaded
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this project zip file i am going to copy
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and put it to my favorite drive so you
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can select whatever drive you want so
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I'm going to put into my G drive
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i'm going to paste paste on here
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so here this is my
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now this zip file I'm going to make it
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as a normal folder so I'm I want extract
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this so if you are not install the
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vinear software you must install then
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only if you right click on this folder
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you can see here this option will be
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there
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so I'm going to extract files
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click okay now here this file now
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extracted well it become a normal folder
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so if you double click here inside this
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folder we have a Maya this file we have
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to open on the Intel J idea we have to
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open on the Intel J so let me
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I'm going to open up my IntellJ idea app
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this is the editor where I use to write
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the spring boot application this is a
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professional editor for writing the Java
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application books
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now I'm going to open up my project into
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my Intel idea app so what you're going
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to do is go to the file
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open option
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here you have to select where file is
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resided here you can selected where your
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file is resided so my my file is resided
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on on the G drive
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so I'm going to go to the here this is
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your all the uh folder is show your all
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the drives
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here I have put into my G drive so
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select the G drive click on this arrow
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to expand it so what is the name of your
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project you have to select my app so you
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have to you have to select as my app
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here this is a my here some my app this
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is my project my app click on here don't
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open this one okay this is this is this
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folder you don't open it here go inside
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here inside you can see here this is
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this is our
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uh project inside this folder we have
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another folder which is a maya that
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folder you have to open it you must open
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that folder don't open that folder
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inside this may my folder there will be
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another folder called with maya you open
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this folder inside this folder all the
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project is there click okay first
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project I'm going to open defeat now you
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have to wait until all the you can see
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the taskbar all the dependency what are
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the dependencies are selected all the
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dependency will be installed
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right you have to wait okay here you can
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see this all the things will be
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installing you have to wait okay it
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installed successfully here you can see
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this is your
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folder structure you can see
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I hope you guys you understood well I'll
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see in my Next
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hi welcome back in our last video we saw
3:48
how to generate the Spring Boot
3:50
application project we have downloaded
3:53
the generated project we have downloaded
3:57
this project zip file i am going to copy
4:04
and put it to my favorite drive so you
4:08
can select whatever drive you want so
4:10
I'm going to put into my G drive
4:14
i'm going to paste paste on here
4:18
so here this is my
4:21
now this zip file I'm going to make it
4:25
as a normal folder so I'm I want extract
4:30
this so if you are not install the
4:32
vinear software you must install then
4:36
only if you are right click on this
4:38
folder you can see here this option will
4:41
be there so I'm going to extract files
4:46
click okay now here this file now
4:50
extracted well it become a normal folder
4:55
so if you double click here inside this
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folder we have a Maya this file we have
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to open on the Intel J idea app you have
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to open on the IntelJ
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so let me
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I'm going to open up my IntelJ idea app
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this is the editor where I used to write
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the Spring Boot application this is a
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professional editor for writing the Java
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application
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now I'm going to open up my project into
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my Intelli idea app so what you're going
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to do is go to the file
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open option
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here you have to select where file is
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resided here you can select it where
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your file is resided so my my file is
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resided on on the G drive so I'm going
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to go to the here this is your all the
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uh folder is show your all the drives
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here I have put into my G drive so
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select the G drive click on this arrow
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to expand it so what is the name of your
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project you have to select my app so you
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have to you have to select as my app
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here this is a my here some my app this
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is my project my app click on here don't
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open this one okay this is this is this
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folder you don't open it here go inside
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here inside you can see here this is
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this is our
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uh project inside this folder we have
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another folder which is a Maya that
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folder you have to open it you must open
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that folder don't open that folder
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inside this Maya folder there will be
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another folder called Maya you open this
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folder
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inside this folder all the project is
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there click okay trust project i'm going
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to open up this window now you have to
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wait until all the you can see the
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taskbar all the dependency what are the
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dependencies are selected all the
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dependency will be installed
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right you have to wait okay here you can
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see this all the things will be
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installing you have wait okay it
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installed successfully here you can see
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this is your
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folder structure you can see
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I hope you guys you understood well I'll
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see my next leure
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Hi welcome back in our last video we saw
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how to open the project into IntelJ idea
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let's continue the video so here this is
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my project name my app you can see here
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this is the name which we given in our
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spring boot application so this is the
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name we have given while view while
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configure the project
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here you can say inside the project you
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can see here there will be the folder
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which is src
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inside the src folder you can see here
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the main folder let me expand the main
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folder
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we have two different file one is a Java
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another one is a resources you can see
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here if you expand the Java folder you
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can see here com
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spring boot class my this is the package
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we created here this is the package we
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created inside the Java folder there's a
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package has been created com springboard
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class do my
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this is a package name we have
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configured uh while we configuring the
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project we big name
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inside this package
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there will be the class which will be
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created defaulting my app application if
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you double click and open up here inside
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this class we have a main method you can
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see the main method public static vid
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main this is the main method will be
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created that's it
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right after that you can see here there
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will be the another folder which is a
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resources
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this resources folder if you expand it
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you can see here there are two various
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folders static and templates
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there is another important file which is
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application.properties
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this file which will be used to
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configure the database connection we'll
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we'll see in our next video how to
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configure the database connection how to
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create the database all the thing we
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will be discuss in my next video right
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now let's look at that another important
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file you can see here there is a com.xml
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xml
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this is a very essential file of the
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Spring Boot application
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if you open up this file you can see
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here the dependencies you can see the
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dep area called dependencies what this
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all things are uh string configuration
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what are the configuration you are did
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while you creating the generate the
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spring boot application project here you
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can see here is a package
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artificate ID here what is the version
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all the things are here Java version
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what version you are selected all the
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things are there after that you can see
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here there is a section called
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dependencies
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dependencies we have we have added the
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three dependencies while we generate the
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spring boot application those are JPA
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MySQL connector
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and web you can see here
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this is a JPA dependencies
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this is a web dependency this is a MySQL
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connector dependencies the the three
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dependencies you can select here there
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are three dependencies is there you can
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see here if you want to add more
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dependency you have to add it here
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inside this in this in inside this
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dependencies here if you want to add any
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other dependencies you can add it over
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here later we will see how to add the
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dependencies
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i hope you guys you understood the
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things well i'll see in my next session
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thank you
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hi welcome back in this video I'm going
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to teach how to add the dependencies
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so here imagine you have to forget to
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add the dependency as MySQL connector so
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how to add the dependencies so you go to
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the Google
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you have to type mvn
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mvn maven okay maven you have to type
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MySQL connector
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connector press enter key on your
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keyboard here you can see here there is
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a website which name is Maven
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repository
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click on this first link
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it will take you to this page for
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getting the dependency you can see the
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dependencies here there are many
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dependencies there now you can see don't
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select as the first one to this ones
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okay you have to select as below version
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so here you can select this uh so here
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will be selected this okay here you have
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selected this right 8.0.20
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20 you have select this one okay you can
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select one of these what a problem no
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problem you can I have selected this
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you can see here
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here some me here you can select the me
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dependency you will be able to select
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here yeah you can select it here the
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dependencies so here how to add the
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dependencies so here I'm going to remove
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this MySQL connect dependency
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i have remove it so after remove I'm
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going to apply here the me whatever
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changes you are delete in the home.xml
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XML file it ask to it if you have to
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click this button to ch load the changes
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to update if you click on this the
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changes will be applied here now the
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changes will be appeared the changes
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will be app right now I'm going to add
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this one so here this one what I'm going
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to do is I just copy it select
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I'm going to select it copy right click
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copy back to my int idea form.xml file
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you have to paste inside this
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dependencies
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okay I'm going to paste inside the
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dependency i'm going to paste it that's
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it i paste it after paste it don't
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forget to click on this button you have
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to you must click on this button to
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apply the changes then only the changes
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will be applied in your project
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if you are if you are not if you forget
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it it it won't apply it won't work so if
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you click on this now you can see the
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dependencies this dependency applied
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okay now the dependency has been applied
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perfect right now here dependency has
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been applied successfully this you have
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applied the dependencies if you once you
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forget the dependencies you have to uh
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apply the dependency you have to get the
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dependency like this
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okay so this how we have get the
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dependency i hope you understood the
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things well there is a site which is a
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man repository
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thank you for watching i'll see you in
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my next lecture thank you