We will use Spring Initializr (http://start.spring.io) to initialize a Kotlin project. The following screenshot shows the Group and ArtifactId to choose from:
The following are a couple of important things to note:
- Choose
Webas the dependency - Choose
Kotlinas the language (second drop-down at the top of the screenshot) - Click on
Generate Projectand import the downloaded project into the eclipse as a Maven project
The following screenshot shows the structure of the generated project:
The following are some of the important things to note:
src/main/kotlin: This is the folder where all the Kotlin source code is present. This is similar tosrc/main/javain a Java project.src/test/kotlin: This is the folder where all the Kotlin test code is present. This is similar tosrc/test/javain a Java project.- Resource folders are the same as a typical Java project--
src/main/resourcesandsrc/test/resources. - Instead of JRE,
Kotlin Runtime Libraryis used as the execution...