In this section, we will provide a few tips to effectively develop Spring-based RESTful web services.
Maven and Gradle are well-supported tools and most integrated development environments, or IDEs, provide a way to import such projects. For example, with IntelliJ IDEA, our sample web service project can be imported by selecting the menu options File | Open. Once imported, the project will be shown as follows:
With the project imported, we can start implementing our property management system web service. Before we do so, however, let's discuss how to execute our service.